The Postal Museum

 

Seaside Postcards In celebration of the summer holidays we’re off around the coast with collection highlights celebrating the great British seaside. First, we're heading to the coastal towns of Lowestoft, Weston-Super-Mare and Folkestone with Curator Georgina, as she investigates postcard design and correspondence. You can see many of these postcards on display in our exhibition, Wish You Were Here: 151 Years of the British Postcard, included with entry to the Museum. Read more

Fishy deliveries Would you rather receive a fish or a postcard as a holiday greeting? This photograph from 1937 is of the ‘Supreme Bloaters’ shop in Great Yarmouth. Holiday-makers sent off so many gift boxes of Bloaters, a type of Herring, that special collections were needed during the holiday season. Discover more stories of unusual postal deliveries with a visit to The Postal Museum this summer. Find out more A review of Butlins, Skegness ‘Yes it really is as tasteless as all that!’ This candid message on a postcard sent from Butlins in 1983 gives a glimpse into a holiday experience perhaps not to remember! Discover more postcard correspondence in our free video tour of our Wish You Were Here exhibition with Curator Georgina and Visitor Hosts David and Vida, as they take you through over 150 years of postcard history. Watch the video We're all going on an #ArchiveHoliday Delve into our archive to get a taste of holidays past on Twitter and Instagram. We love this photograph of a delivery to a hop-picking farm in Kent. Holidays weren't all beaches and sunshine, this activity in the 1930s-1960s was a working holiday. Families got away from polluted cities to enjoy cleaner air in the countryside, but they didn't stop working. Follow us on Instagram