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A Raphael Tuck & Sons "Oilette" who they claim were 'Art Publishers to Their Majesty's the King and Queen'. Edward VII became King on the death of his mother Queen Victoria in 1901, The card was posted in Weston-Super-Mare in August 1904 to a Miss Alice Horsford of Tetbury, Gloucester and typically talks about the weather; 'The weather so far has been perfect, but wet today so cannot go out this-morning'. [001] |
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An almost identical view of the dock and shipping but I do have to question the hand colouring accuracy of this particular Valentine's Series postcard. Never, never have I seen the water of Penarth Dock a vivid Caribbean blue! Typically, it would have been covered for the most part in a thick layer of coal dust which we all know is decidedly black! This postcard was posted in St. Malo, France during March 1914 just a few months prior to the outbreak of WWI but obviously the photograph dates from at least a decade earlier. It is addressed to Madame and Monsieur Moret and I am not even going to attempt to translate. [001] [024] |
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| The Docks, Penarth - Another version of the same photograph as above but with a slightly different colourisation and hue. The water colour is more in keeping with a working dock covered in coal dust! Another heritage postcard held within the Penarth Dock Collection. [001] |
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| The Docks, Penarth - Yet another version of the same photograph as above but with a slightly different colourisation and hue. Another heritage postcard held within the Penarth Dock Collection. [001] |
