John Burke's a-Musings

A couple of weeks ago I was celebrating the end of a long-running task - the scanning of some 700 postcards from the Hayley Easthope collec...

Some three years ago whilst buying some 78 rpm records I was asked if I collected postcards as well. On saying yes, a large cardboard box a...

A couple of years ago I was given a huge collection of postcards and at intervals I have been digging them out and scanning them. So far I ...

I made a bit of a boo boo yesterday with my entry in the Edgar Pedley series. These two postcards featured here should have come first. S...

I mentioned that it was a while since we caught up with the exploits of Edgar Pedley who served in the Signals Corps through the First World...

The last we heard from Edgar Pedley of the 59th Signal Corps, it was 1916 and he was about to leave for France. It's now 18 March 1917...

Another of the postcards from the Hayley Easthope Collection today. A while ago I featured a postcard sent by her great-uncle, Edgar Pedle...

January's a quiet month for photographers so that sort of leads to a quietish month on the blog as well. I can't let 78rpm records ...

A week ago we stopped by in the Midlands to buy a couple of large boxes full of 78 rpm records and was also given a box of old postcards. I...