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Title: Old postcard
Post by: SuzieGirl on Monday 03 June 19 11:37 BST (UK)
Is there someone can please decifer what is written on this very old postcard? Thanks
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Post by: Ruskie on Monday 03 June 19 13:01 BST (UK)
Mrs ??
16 Hatton St *
Princes St*
Stockport
England

* possibly an address on the corner of those streets?  :-\
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Post by: SuzieGirl on Monday 03 June 19 13:11 BST (UK)
Thank you for your reply Ruskie.  Yes, I thought there were 2 streets mentioned on it, but could't read the 2nd one.
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Post by: Ruskie on Monday 03 June 19 13:14 BST (UK)
Sorry I have no idea what the correspondence says.  :-\

Is this a photograph of the postcard? If you scan it I wonder if it might make it clearer?

I hope someone might be able to work some magic and enhance it for you.  :)
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Post by: SuzieGirl on Monday 03 June 19 13:29 BST (UK)
Unfortunately I don't have a scanner. but thanks anyway.
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Post by: HeatherLynne on Monday 03 June 19 13:50 BST (UK)
Looking at a modern day map of Stockport, Hatton Street is a turning off Princes Street  :)
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Post by: dublin1850 on Monday 03 June 19 14:31 BST (UK)
I think the bottom part of the writing on the left side is the address again.
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Post by: Treetotal on Monday 03 June 19 14:36 BST (UK)
Looks like Mrs. M. White on the lower left portion, Just above Hatton Street.
Carol
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Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 03 June 19 15:01 BST (UK)
Mrs McMahon. Mary McMahon can be found at 16 Hatton Street in one of the censuses
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Post by: Treetotal on Monday 03 June 19 15:04 BST (UK)
1939 shows the Harvey Family at No.15 and the Massey Family at No.16 Hatton Street.
Carol
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Post by: SuzieGirl on Monday 03 June 19 15:26 BST (UK)
thanks everyone, that is great.
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Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 03 June 19 17:18 BST (UK)
You can see 16 Hatton Street marked on this map https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/389377/390677/13/101329
Change the zoom as necessary.

Stan
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Post by: bbart on Monday 03 June 19 18:05 BST (UK)
All I can make out for the correspondence is the first line:
If you  following this
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Post by: Ruskie on Monday 03 June 19 23:29 BST (UK)
Quote from: ShaunJ on Monday 03 June 19 15:01 BST (UK)
Mrs McMahon. Mary McMahon can be found at 16 Hatton Street in one of the censuses

Which census Shaun? I thought I could see an M and another M, (either Mrs or Mc and surname also starting with an M) so this might fit.

Carol will be able to confirm, but this postcard looks to date from the early 1900s?
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Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 03 June 19 23:39 BST (UK)
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Which census Shaun?

The most recent available.

On the post card there is some distance between Mc and Mahon.
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Post by: Ruskie on Monday 03 June 19 23:49 BST (UK)
1911 might fit date wise with the resident's location and date of card.

Yes, there is a gap between what may be a Mc and a Mahon. I also considered a Tho and a surname beginning with T, but it's not clear enough on my monitor to offer an opinion either way.  :)
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Post by: Treetotal on Monday 03 June 19 23:55 BST (UK)
I am guessing that the message infers that "Anyone finding this to please forward to Mrs. & Mrs. M. White" followed by another address similar to the postal address.

Ruskie....With the absence of a a stamp box, the only dateable feature is the divided back which was introduced in 1902 in the UK.
Carol
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Post by: Ruskie on Tuesday 04 June 19 00:18 BST (UK)
Quote from: Treetotal on Monday 03 June 19 23:55 BST (UK)
I am guessing that the message infers that "Anyone finding this to please forward to Mrs. & Mrs. M. White" followed by another address similar to the postal address.

Ruskie....With the absence of a a stamp box, the only dateable feature is the divided back which was introduced in 1902 in the UK.
Carol

Could be. There's not much writing on there.  :-\

I thought the addition of "England" to the address on the right inferred that the card may have either been sent from or taken abroad somewhere. May fit with the request to return it if lost.  :-\

I googled the photographer but a brief look didn't find much - only found a few portraits from early 1900s.

Suzie what is on the other side of this card?