02 Monday Jun 2014
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British Monarchy, Coronation, Dorothy Wilding, HM Queen Elizabeth II, Postcard, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Family
Today is the anniversary of H M The Queen’s Coronation and this is my 100th blog entry, so it seemed only right to dig out a portrait of Her Majesty from my postcard collection.
The portrait is by Dorothy Wilding.
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21 Monday Apr 2014
Posted in Ephemera.
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British History, British Monarchy, Corgis, Ephemera, Postcards, Postmarks, Queen Elizabeth II, Roses, Royal Family, Sheffield, Stamps, Taunton.
As 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.
Note the details about the weather. How characteristically British.
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