Postcard
Collection object
1985.0276
H. 9.1 W. 13.9
Postcard, b/w, matt. Newcastle West, Bishop Street. Wrench Series No. 8955. View up street curving to left, a turn-off to right foreground. Dirt road. Thatched cottages, a two storey slated house between, on left side of street, rough cobbled footpath; large house with ornate ridges and fasciae, trees in garden, to right. Stone garden wall on turn-off right, man and woman on footpath outside house. Horses and carts on street. Wide margin below, with title below photo left and centre, publisher bottom left. R/ printed black, headed "Post Card". Dotted vertical division left of centre, headed left "This space mey be used / for communication / in the British Isles only / (Post Office regulation)", and right "The address onlt to be / written here". Dotted outline for stamp printed "Inland 1/2d / stamp / Foreign / 1d". Down left side "The Wrench Series (drawing of a wrench, 'Wrench' below, in oval) Printed in Saxony".