PECULIAR POSTCARDS

JAN BONDESON shares another deltiological discovery from his prodigious collection of postcards. This month’s pictorial blast from the past presents an inventive postcard series imagining a watery version of the English capital

PECULIAR POSTCARDS JAN BONDESON shares another deltiological discovery from his prodigious collection of postcards. This month’s pictorial blast from the past presents an inventive postcard series imagining a watery version of the English capital 21. IF LONDON WERE VENICE In 1905, at the height of the Edwardian postcard mania, Valentines of Dundee thought of a novel enterprise: why not take some postcards of traditional London landmarks and adapt them to show canals and gondolas, as if the metropolis had undergone a strange transformation into some Venetian rendezvous? A correspondent to Picture Postcard Monthly of January 2006 has pointed out that there were six cards in all: Piccadilly, the Law Courts, Cheapside, Bank and Exchange, Trafalgar Square and Fleet Street. The Piccadilly card shows gondolas on their way round this famous…

You're reading a preview of

Fortean Times (Digital) - 1 Issue, 411

DiscountMags is a licensed distributor (not a publisher) of the above content and Publication through Zinio LLC. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered on our website, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of DiscountMags. DiscountMags does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, or usefulness of all or any portion of any publication or any services or offers made by third parties, nor will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information contained in any Publication, or your use of services offered, or your acceptance of any offers made through the Service or the Publications. For content removal requests, please contact Zinio.