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Postcards sent from Rushden


WWI greeting card
hobnailed boots
Line of hobnailed boots
postcard by CW Desborough
Sent to Pte W Tysoe 17887 3rd N'ptons who was training in 1916 at Gillingham

Rushden Echo, 29th September 1916 - Extract

Enterprise at Rushden - Thousands of War Pictures
Unique Pictorial Postcards

Unusually large crowds gathered on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last in front of the premises of Mr. Charles Robinson, newsagent, High-street, Rushden, to inspect the special display of picture postcards of the War, officially sanctioned, and issued by the "Daily Mail."

Mr. Robinson has had many a good window show in the past, but the opinion of the spectators clearly was that he has never had so fine a show before...........
[part of a longer article]


A postcard layout
This one by Ern Bandey



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