The main purpose of this site is to organise and display my extensive collection of postcards.
I came to postcard collecting late in life largely by accident. In the early 2000s I became involved with the Sutton Courtenay Local History Society as the Society’s webmaster. Through this endeavour I developed an interest in early (late 19th and early 20th century) pictures of Sutton Courtenay and its environs and village life as reflected mainly in real photograph (RP) topographical postcards.
My collection has since expanded to include topographical postcards of Abingdon and its neighbouring parishes, as well as Bedford (where my wife and I grew up) and Oxford (where we went to university) - all published from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. Further my collection has extended to include postcards showing scenes and characters from the novels of the great Charles Dickens as well as other cards, dating mostly from the early years of the 20th century, on a wide range of topics that interest me or have captured my collector’s imagination.
More recently, an increasingly significant part of my collection consists of more modern (post-WWII to present day) cards, that I find interesting and/or attractive.
Also, since moving to Audley Wycliffe Park, near Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire in 2023, another collecting area has opened up for me viz early topographical cards showing Stokenchurch, High Wycombe and their environs.
As a means of recording and keeping track of my postcard collection, I scan them and store the digital images in online photo albums here. Anyone interested can see these albums via the catalogue links below.