Sold for £500
Estimated at £300 - £500
Edwardian Period Large Postcard Album Containing Approximately 900 Postcards, postcards from Edwardian to 1930s, mainly UK some overseas, scenic, humorous, sentimental, occasions, some local to Berkshire, includes an interesting group of RPs, Show Week 1920 Aldermaston depicts a group of men gathered in front of a car, Aldermaston 1908 snow covered scene, 1923 Reading Corp Tram and Motor collection week, depicts a tram festooned for the Mayors Unemployment fund, Maidenhead Garage 1918 depicts a 1795 bus with staff in Summer Garb, Military camp Tilehurst Reading 1910, RHA at Foxhill Centenary Fete 1910, Reading Police at Drill Recreation Ground, Co Op fete Prospect Park by C E May, Bank Holiday at Prospect Park Reading 1911, possibly another by Rumbold Wallingford, Caversham Bridge 1911 with C & G Ayres horsedrawn Delivery wagon, Bath Rd Thatcham 1911, Colthrop Paper Mills with goods wagons, Widmeadow Lock Thatcham, The Moors Thatcham 1923, two depicting a group of bus workers (possibly Reading Corp) with their buses 'On Promenade in Reading During WWI', The Wallingford omnibus with driver Jimmy Wheeler and female clippie outside the Three Feathers Wallingford, Edward & Sons Portable Building Specialists, Lewknor, St Mary's Butts Reading depicting a fire station and the Salvation Army Citadel, Bath Rd Newbury 1925, Tattenden Village, Dinner time Biscuit Factory Redaing, High St Nettlebed, The Street Trimley, Monday Market Street Devizes, Battle School 1912, Wellington Rd Heaton Norris, Frant Court Sussex, sent by Pte Gregory Royal Sussex Regt BEF, The Parade Hastings, Motor Cars in long walk for Royal Garden Party 1908, a British single decker bus with driver Moleux during WWI, carriage with figures possibly Mayor of London outside HL Holloway Church St Deptford, Funeral of Trooper Moore, Life Guards, Windsor 1909, a postcard depicting Harry Bensley on his Walk Around the World in a knights helmet, purchased from him in Reading 1908 in the market place, other RPs included, many postcards dated/annotated on reverse, overall P-VG, (900 approx.)
some of the RPs are loose from the album, please see additonal images of the album, not everything is images as there is too many
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