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The Broadway Hotel.

01 Thursday May 2014

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Broadway, Broadway Hotel, Cotswolds, Ephemera, fifteenth century, history, hotels, old photographs, Postcards, The Broadway Hotel, Topiary, Worcestershire

The Broadway Hotel.

There is no information on the back of this postcard, which I purchased last week, but it turns out there are surprisingly few hotels with this name. This The Broadway Hotel is in Worcestershire (Broadway being the name of the town rather than the name of the street) and the building itself looks exactly the same, but there have been some changes to the topiary by the look of things on-line.
To quote the Welcome to Broadway and The Cotswolds website, “Right in the centre of Broadway over looking the village green next to ancient, domed yew trees, is the half – timber framed and honey stoned Broadway Hotel. Originally built as a rural retreat for the Abbots of Pershore in the fifteenth century The Broadway Hotel is still the perfect place to escape to today”.
Have a look for yourself: http://www.broadway-cotswolds.co.uk/broadwayhotel.html

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur | Filed under Ephemera.

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“The Smallest House in Great Britain”.

25 Friday Apr 2014

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Conway, Ephemera, Fruit Market Hull, Guiness Book of Records, Hull, Hull City of Culture 2017, Postcards, Property, Smallest House, Wales

I bought this postcard from a chap on Hull’s Fruit Market this afternoon. The caption at the bottom of the photograph, in white, reads “The Smallest House in Wales, Conway“. The house is still there and its website informs me that its “Smallest House” statue is officially recognised by the Guinness Book of Records. Take a look: http://thesmallesthouseingreatbritain.co.uk/

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“Their Royal Highnesses The Princess Elizabeth and The Princess Margaret Rose”.

21 Monday Apr 2014

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British History, British Monarchy, Corgis, Ephemera, Postcards, Postmarks, Queen Elizabeth II, Roses, Royal Family, Sheffield, Stamps, Taunton.

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AsĀ it is Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday today I thought I’d share this postcard from my collection for you.

The postmark on the back reliably informs me that it was posted in Taunton on the 9th June 1945 to a Sheffield resident, Peggy Hobson; the sender’s daughter. I’ve had a look in my copy of “The Chronology of British History” by Alan & Veronica Palmer and they haven’t got a lot of information on that particular day or month in 1945, but the timing of Mum and Daddy’s journey up to Sheffield with a car full of roses took place in the lull between VE Day and VJ Day.

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Note the details about the weather. How characteristically British.

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