by David Adams
Cards A & B both feature narrow boat Champion, both are
divided back real photos but probably published. Both are unused, but Card
A has Stourbridge penciled on back.
Card A
Card B
by David Adams
Cards A & B both feature narrow boat Champion, both are
divided back real photos but probably published. Both are unused, but Card
A has Stourbridge penciled on back.
Card A
Card B
by Trevor EllisKen Parris sent in a card that he found while going through the stock of cards on one of the stalls in Gloucester Docks Antique Centre. He could not find Thornton-le-Dale in any of his gazetteers and thought that this might make a useful "Mystery Card".
He is not alone in thinking that the view looks as if it is, or was, part of a navigable waterway. Unfortunately, Thornton-le-Dale is not much of a mystery in Yorkshire. My heart regularly sinks as, having asked a northern postcard dealer "Any canals?" he trots out the inevitable view. Thornton (sometimes just Thornton Dale) is in North Yorkshire a couple of miles east of Pickering on the A170 towards Scarborough. A renowned local beauty spot, but definitely a stream rather than a canal.
I thought I would use it as the first of a "Buyer Beware!" series on bogus canals. There is another one that regularly surfaces in this area; a view of the reservoir overflow at Ogden, near Halifax, and I am sure that there must be other examples in other parts of the country. If anyone has any similar cards that they would like to send in, I will certainly make use of them.