Postcard From The Past

COPYRIGHT

4th Estate

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First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

Copyright © Tom Jackson 2017

Tom Jackson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Source ISBN: 9780008220532

Ebook Edition © June 2017 ISBN: 9780008220549

Version: 2017-03-21

POSTCARD FROM THE PAST

‘Resurrecting these postcards, relics of forgotten times and forgotten holidays, was the simplest and most brilliant idea. Tom Jackson combines the images with just a few of the words scribbled on the back, and his eye for the choice sentence, the perfect phrase, is miraculous. Thanks to his assiduous, obsessive work as collector and curator, each one of these postcards becomes a poem, a short story, an elegy for lost England, a work of art’

JONATHAN COE

Yesterday I caught 3 of my fingers in the car door.

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

The Postcards

Postcard Locations

Postcard Publishers

Thanks

About the Author

About the Publisher

INTRODUCTION

Every summer during the late sixties and early seventies my sister and I had two week-long holidays away from our home in Northampton. We spent the first with our paternal grandparents at a boarding house in Brighton where we rented deckchairs, played shove