My Mother was 15 when she recieved, in 1937, a letter from her best school friend. King George was king of England and the second world war was yet to unfold.
As I sort through a bix box of letters to my Mother, the pile belonging to her dear friend Rita is only rivalled by that of her mother. The two would remain in correspondence into their 80's.
I went to post this last night, and lost the long description that accompanied it. I was too tired to start again - but this is the first in an effort to fulfill my get pushed challenge from Sally this week which is ' taking a macro shot of something in a house? Something that you would not normally think to take a picture of.'
What an iconic stamp and attached to something so dear as an old letter kept all these years! I think the maco shot of is quite nice, the detail in those little illustrations is amazing. I have a Canadian 10 cent with his likeness from the late forties.
Can you put yourself 50 years into the future and your children reading your emails ?
That’s even if emails still exist in twenty, ten , five years time. Reading this, a couple of days late. Just as it’s announced that the Post Office are adding barcodes to stamps.
Now a days most people have lots of physical history. His collection of letters, records, books, going back years. His bank statements and service bills etc etc.
When the unavoidable happens, we still have the chance to save precious memories, and have something to remember them by.
Newer throwaway and electronic generations won’t have the privilege of discovering past history.
March 19th, 2021
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That’s even if emails still exist in twenty, ten , five years time. Reading this, a couple of days late. Just as it’s announced that the Post Office are adding barcodes to stamps.
Now a days most people have lots of physical history. His collection of letters, records, books, going back years. His bank statements and service bills etc etc.
When the unavoidable happens, we still have the chance to save precious memories, and have something to remember them by.
Newer throwaway and electronic generations won’t have the privilege of discovering past history.