Postcard
Collection object
2002.0080
H. 8.7 W. 14.0
Postcard, b/w, glossy. West Clare Railway locomotive no. 7 on goods train at Ennis c.1937. View of loco parked at stone faced platform, two tenders and three cattle wagons behind, end of train at arch into roofless stone shed. Smoke from loco funnel. Criss-cross tracks across foreground. Margin around. R/ printed grey, upside down, headed Post Card, dotted T-underline and vertical divide, headed l. Correspondence and r., Address only. Dotted outline for stamp. In pencil l., West Clare Rly / No 7 on goods at Ennis, and to r., upside down, About 1937.
(per Max Birchenough; Taken by Ken (KACR) Nunn, and part of the collection of his and his brother’s photographs held by the Locomotive Club of Great Britain. This view appears in Steam in Camera, edited by Patrick Russell, and comprising photos from the collection (Ian Allan 1972), where it is dated 15th September 1898, from Nunn’s own notes.)
(per Max Birchenough; Taken by Ken (KACR) Nunn, and part of the collection of his and his brother’s photographs held by the Locomotive Club of Great Britain. This view appears in Steam in Camera, edited by Patrick Russell, and comprising photos from the collection (Ian Allan 1972), where it is dated 15th September 1898, from Nunn’s own notes.)