I used to regularly buy postcards from ebay, and kept a watch out for Abingdon postcards.
I revisited ebay with a search for “Abingdon Postcards” just now and found these four postcards …
Abingdon, Heraldic Series, Cities and Towns No.203 … Published by Frank Smith, Oxford … 1905
Date of 1910 written on the back. Not posted.
Message dated 1919.
Postmarked Wantage 1910.
The scenes on these postcards are still very easy to recognise after over 100 years. But go a little further out from the centre of Abingdon… and houses have replaced fields … and older dwellings like those at Northcourt have been surrounded by, and become part of, the greater town of Abingdon.
I love old postcards, send postcards by snail-mail to all the relatives at every stop, have done so for years.
Love the postcards and your Daily Postcard blog!
When I was very small I kept a scrapbook with photos and the fronts of christmas and birthday cards pasted into it.
I grew up in another English market town but moved to Abingdon many years ago and have lived here longer than anywhere else.
When I recently opened up the decades old scrapbook, one of the Christmas cards had that classic and easily recognisable view shown in the first and last photos. An odd coincidence that it would end up being my home!