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I found this old Postcard. I then scanned and enlarged the very small pictures. I will try to copy more of our postcards and post them here
A steam driven traction engine.
This looks like Wood end.
The Fleur de Lys
Widdington House
The old Bakery, High Street
Widdington Band 14 July 1909
Pond Mead
Widdington 1911
A lot of these postcards were taken by a Mr G Potts, of Stanstead Essex
Hi, according to the advert in the trade directory his name was George Potts but the back of his cartes de visite photos has an initial that could be taken as a C or a G. See attached.
Here is data and I think I can amalgamate the two entries as they appear to be the same person. What is the difference between Stansted Mountfitchet and Stansted?
Potts, G
Stanstead
Essex
England
1881
Potts, George
Stansted Mountfitchet
Essex
England
1878
1890
Happy to support your local history website so no charge. If you use them on your site please credit “Ron Cosens at www.cartedevisite.co.uk “ Thanks.
No Thank you Ron...GaryD
Early postcards provide us with an insight into old village life.
Although photography was developed from the 1850s onwards, one of our main source of early village Life scenes is unquestionably the picture postcards.
These were popular form of communication between 1894 and the 1950s.
Britain was slower than its continual neighbours to catch on to the picture postcard.
It was not till 1894 before the old post office gave the green light.
Surprisingly there are a lot of different postcard images of our beautiful village.
I will try to add a new Picture postcard page in the New Year.
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