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Husband; Retired; Deltiologist; Fifer; Whisky lover; Postcard archive for Newport on Tay, Leuchars, Tayport, NE Fife, Cynicus: also on @postcard13.bsky.social

 Newport on Tay & Auchterarder
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Newport on Tay Dundee The Fire Brigade from Dundee attending a call-out across the river Tay at Newport arriving on the Ferry #FireEngine #Fife #NewportOnTay
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#BackToWorkMonday The clocks have changed for winter, better get the street lights working for the dark nights, squad of street light workers replacing a lighting column. #streetlights #socialhistory #postcard #oldpostcard
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#SailAwaySunday Raise and set the sails for leaving the docks at Dundee city centre to sail away down the estuary of the Tay, out to the North Sea, postcard used in 1904. This dock infilled in the 60’s for roads for Tay Bridge. #dundee #shipping #postcard #oldpostcard
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#PostboxSaturday Postbox, comic old postcard illustrated by Martin Anderson, Cynicus, published by his company at Tayport, Fife #cynicus #postbox #postcard #oldpostcard
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#SteepleSaturday Dundee, various steeples in the skyline of the city when viewed from the Nethergate #steeple #dundee #postcard #oldpostcard
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#FridayFeeling Off on a carriage ride, it’s July in Ilfracombe but hats, coats and travel rugs required. #socialhistory #transport #ilfracombe #postcard #oldpostcard
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#AdoorableThursday Unidentified location of this postcard, of a man sitting at his front door surrounded by the addition of an Edwardian archway with a very seasonal pumpkin from the garden. #pumpkin #socialhistory #postcard #oldpostcard
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#WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday Eighteen construction workers, masons, labourers, gather in front of a new house presently on the second floor level of the stonework, window frames set, timber pole scaffold. #construction #building #socialhistory #postcard #oldpostcard
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#ChimneyChewsday Hodders Combe, Holford, postcard used in 1925, central chimney stack on house conical roof, smoking away #chimney #quirkyhome #postcard #oldpostcard
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#BackToWorkMonday The start of another working week for a squad of Carpet Beaters, attending a country house for the annual clean, carpets lifted and beaten outside, carpet beaters with beaters in hand have a well deserved break from the dust. 2 postcards #socialhistory #postcard
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#SailAwaySunday Unidentified, other than a pencil note ‘Norwegian Sail’, family holiday postcard souvenir #socialhistory #postcard #oldpostcard
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#SteepleSaturday Norman church, St.Athernase, Leuchars, Fife #postcard #oldpostcard #leuchars
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#PostboxSaturday Edwardian Old Postcard child and pillar box #postcard 📮
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#FridayFeeling End of the week in the office, ready for a night out, including the boss, with his better hat status #socialhistory #postcard #oldpostcard
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#AdoorableThursday The door to Hermit’s Cave, Sunnyside, Cullen, along with the hermit for the postcard photographer. #socialhistory #cullen #hermit #postcard #oldpostcard
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• The image depicts Charles Marion (also spelled Marone), a reclusive man who lived there from 1920 to 1933, building his shelter from driftwood, catching fish, growing vegetables in imported soil, and keeping a clean, orderly home while revealing little about his origins.
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#WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday The walls and windows of the unique building, Observatory at Dumfries #dumfries #postcard #oldpostcard
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Built originally as a windmill in 1798, it was converted into an observatory and fitted with a Camera Obscura in 1836 to observe the night sky and Halley's Comet, the worlds oldest camera obscura, building now a museum.
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#ChimneyChewsday The Fall of the Roxburgh Sugar Refinery, Chimney, Greenock, Glasgow, postcard recording the event. #chimney #greenock #demolition #postcard #oldpostcard
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#BackToWorkMonday Monday morning and it’s back to work for this Taxi Driver from a garage in Cricklewood in 1910. #earlymotoring #veterncar #taxi #postcard #oldpostcard #criklewood
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#SailAwaySunday Real photographic postcard, on the left ‘Killoran’ with Cunards passenger ship ‘Samaria’ on the right sailing away. #shipping #cunard #postcard #oldpostcard
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