John Burke's a-Musings

Monday 31 May 1999. Ah well, all good things have to come to an end, but we are not totally finished with this holiday yet! We are leaving ...

This series of articles features postcards sent by Edgar Pedley, serving in the Signals Corps during World War One. The postcards were sent ...

Another look at the autograph book from 1915-1919 bought at a book fair in February 2017. There are more blank pages than used ones and it c...

A second look inside the old autograph book, picked up at a book fair recently. I mentioned the last time that I thought this book had be...

Yesterday we had a motor up to Hornby, north Lancashire to a book fair that was being held in the Hornby Institute. A lovely place Hornby, ...

A postcard from my own collection this time. Cliftonville is an area of Margate in Kent. We stayed in a hotel on the seafront several times...

Today's entry shows a postcard from Weston-Super-Mare. It was posted at 10:30 in the morning on the 16th of July 1917. The photo sho...

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...

Regular readers may remember my series on this blog following the exploits of Edgar Pedley who served in the Signals Corps in World War One...

A short postcard from Private Edgar Pedley of the 59th Signal Corps. Stamped "Active Service" he writes back home to his landlady...

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...