Artwork : ArchiveNo00096

Four Postcards 1908

ContributionForm
Contributor Name	Marjorie Burton
Contributor Image	No_00095-6_Marjorie.jpg
Profession
Location	Cosham
Collection Date	22.02.08 1.16pm
Artefact Name	Four Postcards
Artefact Description	Three of the postcards have photographs on the front. Two photos of a Blacksmith on site. One photograph of family. One of ‘The Old Smithy’ Milton (Portsmouth is written on the front) – it has glitter and some colour – it is also a Christmas card.
Artefact Date	1908
Artefact Stored	Kept in my sitting room in a bureau
Artefact Form
Artefact Image	Smithy_Postcard.jpg
Sample Taken	Bit of paper from the corner of ‘The Old Smithy’ postcard.
Sample Image
History of Artefact	William Kingswell was the Blacksmith in the photograph. Photograph with the doorway and the Blacksmith includes Marjorie’s father. The photograph of ‘The Old Smithy’ is how Milton used to be. The family photograph includes three of her aunts, and uncles, two cousins and her mother is the bride.
Historian
Previous Owners	Mother
Special Memories	‘I didn’t know most of the people included in the photograph. I was born two years after the photograph was taken. It makes me think of my mother who I was close to, I wasn’t fond of my father because he was strict.’
Artwork Image	00096_web.jpg

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