Wednesday 28th November 2018
Postcard Collecting
Trevor Ellis
Today’s speaker was Trevor Ellis who spoke on “Reading the Cards”.
He presented slides of postcards he has collected some of high value and relating to local history.
He also outlined the post card in its day as the email of the 19th/20th century with up to 6 postal collections and deliveries a day up until the first world war.
He showed many local scenes including canals; Huddersfield and Meltham.which generated much discussion in the meeting.