Is the windmill advertising the Cannon Hill tulip festival Pedro? Great photo, lots of tulips in the foreground. Viv.
Is the windmill advertising the Cannon Hill tulip festival Pedro? Great photo, lots of tulips in the foreground. Viv.
The horse drawn transport and horse bus date this as circa 1905 and yet colour photography had not yet been invented and until the mid thirties all colour postcards had in actual fact been black and white photographs that had been carefully hand coloured (mainly by young women) prior to pritingwhich makesthisone a particularly fine card, it is well animated and is a very fine card. I have to ask Stitcher, are you a postcard collector? Certainly you seem to be responsible for posting an excellent selection. And don't these older cards whether coloured or black and white almost works of art, compared with todays bland coloured photographs, lifelesss and seemingly devoid of interest
With the horse drawn bus and no cars whatsoever it has to be 1900-1905/6 I would think. The problem is there are no women in it to date it more precisely from their dresses, hats etc. Centre background is a figure pushing something wheeled, but to indistinct to identify. Whatever date it is a superb card, brilliantly coloured. Once again there is a need to know who the publisher was and are there other versions?Anyone suggest a date for the picture of Broad Street?
Hello Bob, sorry about the delay in replying but I am trying to do to many things at once. To answer your question, no I am not a postcard collector but a number of years ago I was a tourist guide and I saved every picture or postcard image I came across because it was great to take a visitor to a venue or place of interest so they could actually see it and compare it with a picture from the past.The horse drawn transport and horse bus date this as circa 1905 and yet colour photography had not yet been invented and until the mid thirties all colour postcards had in actual fact been black and white photographs that had been carefully hand coloured (mainly by young women) prior to pritingwhich makesthisone a particularly fine card, it is well animated and is a very fine card. I have to ask Stitcher, are you a postcard collector? Certainly you seem to be responsible for posting an excellent selection. And don't these older cards whether coloured or black and white almost works of art, compared with todays bland coloured photographs, lifelesss and seemingly devoid of interest
. They show a building, a hill even a street, but now we omit the cars, the buses and the people. Will the members of BHS in seventy years time look at a picture/postcard printed in 2000 trying to finely date it like we do at the moment and then age not in tens of tears, but in months.
Bob
Is this a real coloured photo or is it a modern postWW2 black and white that has been coloured. The reason I ask is because the colours look to garish and also were there lime green Ford Consuls? Like the Armstrong Siddely on the left hand side.
Hello Lady P., I have no idea of the dates or other details of many of the pics I post. Quite a few years ago I used to visit a friend (sadly no longer with us) who lived in Cross Hands near Llanelli in S. Wales. I used to do the journey every 3 or 4 weeks starting in spring and ending in the autumn. Because of the hundreds of thousands of miles and hours spent on the motorway system as a lorry driver for many years, I used the A roads and sometimes a few B roads as well. On one trip I diverted into Hay On Wye and asked in a bookshop about any books about old Birmingham. They had none but directed me to another shop. This shop sold me a few books and also gave me a box of leaflets, very damaged books and a vast amount of what I assume to be book pages although a lot of them have never been made into books. I use the ones with most information on them in the past and these with less information are what you could call the dregs.