People and postcard
Title
People and postcard
Description
Top left - a baby sitting on low bench. On the reverse 'Hazel Crofts, 1939?'.
Middle left - full face portrait of a woman. On the reverse 'Hazel Crofts'.
Bottom left - full-length image of woman wearing wedding dress and holding bouquet. On the reverse 'Hazel Crofts'.
Bottom middle 'colour postcard with artwork of boy scouts gathered round a scout failing to light a fire. Captioned 'best wishes, Arwill & Ellis. On the reverse '[..] Ellis, 54 Wulfric road'.
Top right - a group of young men and women standing in line in a field with houses behind. On the reverse 'High Storrs, Ralph Darbyshire, Mick Smith, Me with Jill Williams, her friend Sally, Ivan Harrington, Gus Freeman'.
Middle right - a group of six young men standing and three young ladies sitting in front. Fancy brickwork behind. On the reverse 'High Storrs friends, Ralph Derbyshire, Mick Smith, Me, Gordeon Sykes, Gus Freeman, Ivan Harrington, + ? Audrey, Joy, Penny?, (note "Fag" peering thru [sic] under my arm)'.
Bottom right - large troop of boy scouts sitting and standing in four rows. Three adults in centre of second row. On the reverse 'St Swithuns scout troop, me, dad centre between arkaila [sic] + leader, Charlie Crofts is next to me right'.
Middle left - full face portrait of a woman. On the reverse 'Hazel Crofts'.
Bottom left - full-length image of woman wearing wedding dress and holding bouquet. On the reverse 'Hazel Crofts'.
Bottom middle 'colour postcard with artwork of boy scouts gathered round a scout failing to light a fire. Captioned 'best wishes, Arwill & Ellis. On the reverse '[..] Ellis, 54 Wulfric road'.
Top right - a group of young men and women standing in line in a field with houses behind. On the reverse 'High Storrs, Ralph Darbyshire, Mick Smith, Me with Jill Williams, her friend Sally, Ivan Harrington, Gus Freeman'.
Middle right - a group of six young men standing and three young ladies sitting in front. Fancy brickwork behind. On the reverse 'High Storrs friends, Ralph Derbyshire, Mick Smith, Me, Gordeon Sykes, Gus Freeman, Ivan Harrington, + ? Audrey, Joy, Penny?, (note "Fag" peering thru [sic] under my arm)'.
Bottom right - large troop of boy scouts sitting and standing in four rows. Three adults in centre of second row. On the reverse 'St Swithuns scout troop, me, dad centre between arkaila [sic] + leader, Charlie Crofts is next to me right'.
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Format
Six b/w photographs and one colour post card mounted on an album page
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Identifier
SEllisEL183959v10021-0001, SEllisEL183959v10021-0002, SEllisEL183959v10021-0003, SEllisEL183959v10021-0004, SEllisEL183959v10021-0005, SEllisEL183959v10021-0006, SEllisEL183959v10021-0007, SEllisEL183959v10021-0008
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Citation
“People and postcard,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 15, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/42635.