White Star Liner RMS Titanic 1912

To commemorate the sinking of the Titanic on this day a hundred years ago I've posted my only Titanic postcard. This example was posted nearly a month after the disaster. I imagine there will be a lot of blogs mentioning the Titanic today. Click the postcard to enlarge.

Brooklands Flying Grounds, Weybridge, Surrey, c1908-1913

Brooklands Flying Grounds, Weybridge, Surrey, circa 1908-1913. Brooklands motor racing circuit was opened in 1907. It also housed one of Britain's first aerodromes, opened in 1908, where aviation pioneers would try out their latest aircraft. Later there were flying schools and aircraft factories on the site. Much of the site still exists and is owned by the Brooklands Museum. In the bottom two postcards you can see part of the banked racing circuit that Brooklands was famous for.

These postcards were published by Andrew Smith of Surbiton and W. H. Applebee of Ashford. The aeroplanes in the Andrew Smith postcard (AS113) look a little earlier (c1908) than the WHA postcards (c1912). Smith was producing postcards from about 1903, eight years before Applebee who started in 1911. Smith continued producing postcards until the late 1920s. Click the postcards to enlarge.

Please visit the Sepia Saturday blog where the theme this week is 'Flight'.

Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, c1910

Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, circa 1910. The pub on the right, The Forresters Arms, is much altered and is now called The Forresters. Postcard by Young and Co of Teddington. Click the postcard to enlarge.

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