POSTCARD CROSSROADS SCENE Hampstead postmark UK LOCATION The Ryder Memorial Well

[Jamjar]

Well that's excellent R. Now I can sleep tonight.

Does that prove that folk do buy postcards and take them elsewhere to post them? 

I know I'm guilty in that dept.

Jamjar

[groom]

Well that's excellent R. Now I can sleep tonight.

Does that prove that folk do buy postcards and take them elsewhere to post them? 

I know I'm guilty in that dept.

Jamjar

Do people still send postcards today? With the price of postage I expect most people just stick a photo on Facebook. 

[KGarrad]

Do people still send postcards today? With the price of postage I expect most people just stick a photo on Facebook. 

Of course they do!
They send them to RootsChat, as per Trystan's request!

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/postcard.php

[arthurk]

Well done, Rhododendron. With some precise terms to search for I've found a very similar view, plus some village history, here:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~burgin/bovingdon.htm

Arthur

[Jamjar]

Do people still send postcards today? With the price of postage I expect most people just stick a photo on Facebook. 

Fortunately, yes. I collect them and I have a lovely friend in England who sends them regularly. Also have a cousin in Scotland who me sends some. My fridge is well decorated. 

I do my best to return some, but rarely go anywhere new these days.

J.

[Rhododendron]

Thanks Arthur.

And that's a super photo - much better than the one I found!

[Mike in Cumbria]

Well done, and great photos.

[giggsycat]

My friend visited China in April. She said she couldn't find a Post Office so posted it on her return home to Gloucestershire! Someone subsequently told her she could have got a stamp from her hotel!

I don't mind where it was posted as I now have a lovely postcard showing 5 baby Giant Pandas (aah).

Cheers
Giggsy

[001uk]

When I zoom into the image (on iPad), I lose a lot of definition and can't see "Hanson" on the sign. Can you scan the sign please?

I had a quick look but can't see any Hansons in the 1901 census. I haven't looked elsewhere yet.

http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/map/collection/p16445coll4

Hi Ruskie,

Have zoomed in and scanned at 3200dpi and tried enhancing. Now I look at the tinkered image it could be HINSON. 

A quick look on the 1911 Census and there was one George Alexander HINSON at Hampstead...but twenty eight with the name HANSON

(BTW the whole image doesn't appear on the page: try clicking onto CROSSROADS SCENE.jpg under image. The shop is at the extreme right).