The perspective of history suggests an idyllic time before the Great War as if it were one long Edwardian summer.
May 1912 ' ... and have you fed Dick. I left the seed tin on the dresser ...'August 1912 ' ... Going for a sail if it will keep fine ...'August 1913 '... having beautiful weather, have been out sailing for about 4 hours. I think I shall have a very good time ...' ... Our lodgings are lovely. I have got a nice bit of mutton for the dinner just under 2 lbs price 1/111⁄2'
Reader David Pearson supplies this postcard scene of holiday crowds on the sea front at Morecambe. We're not quite sure about the date it was taken, but the weather certainly looks familiar! This is possibly an example of where a guest provides their own food which would then be cooked by the landlady.April 1914 ' ... very high tides working up to the door. Very crowded here ...'A postcard of the West End Promenade, Morecambe. .They were a home defence unit and would have been becoming more noticeableJune 1915 'In the letter you sent me he asked me to send him a box of cigarettes ... Will you get one ... I can't get them here.
August 1919 'The Winter Gardens is where we spent an evening. Such a lovely building ... very wet so we went to The Tower where there is acting going on. The other day we went for a trip right out to sea ...' The Tower was just round the corner from where the postcard writer was staying –Mrs Threadgould's on Lord Street.However, the Tower structure never reached the planned 232 feet in height.WINTER GARDENS: A postcard showing inside the Winter Gardens Ballroom.
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