Percy’s Postcards: First Gallery Posting
Back when my dad passed away in 1998 (19th August 1998) and my sister and I, and my mum, were throwing out so much of his stuff I/we came across about five photo albums of postcards from Europe and featuring Paris and the ‘old’ country—being England. I opened up each of the albums on the off chance my dad might have hidden a few thousand dollars, or perhaps even 500 pound notes in the old money, in there. He was a bit like that as he got older.
I didn’t find any loot in the albums, but in one of them there was a note from my dad (Sydney Walker Lodge) asking that in the event of his death that these albums were not just put in the bin. In his note he was begging that someone in the family keep them. He pointed out that his dad, Percy Harry Lodge of P. H. Lodge & Sons, had apparently spent months ever so carefully putting each one of them into the albums.
I ended up being that person and I have had them stored away since then.
About six years ago I downsized into a two bedroom ‘granny’ flat style property. I brough these albums with me but now, as my life runs out, I decided the time had come to ditch them. I need to shed as much of my crap as I can. But I couldn’t bring myself to bin these albums. I read and re-read that note from my dad begging that someone in the family keep them and pass them down.
Well I have dumped those five albums in the bin. But before I did I removed every picture and now I am embarking on a significant project to scan them and put them up on the Web.
This is just my first and starting post of a small collection of these pictures, which are mostly, if not all, postcards featuring European countries. Mainly, but not only, France and England.
Putting a date on these pictures is extremely challenging. I know that Percy (Yorkie) Lodge passed in 1953. It is easy for me to remember that because it is the year I was born. But that doesn’t help very much in dating these pictures.
But here, using SquareSpace’s Gallery widget, are the first 15 postcards that I have scanned. There are hundreds more yet to scan and post.
Check out future posts in this series for more about the scanning process and more about me trying to date when Percy would have acquired these postcards.
The next post in this series which shows another 32 pictures is here.
This gallery contains images with the following index entries. This information is primarily for the indexers (e.g., Bing, Google, etc.)
PARIS—Le Tombeau de Napoleon
PARIS—Panorama des 7 Pont
PARIS—Le Pantheon
PARIS—La Place de la Bastille
PARIS—Le Sacre-Coeur
PARIS—Panorama vers la Cite
PARIS—Le Hotel de Ville et le Pont d'Arcole
PARIS—Le Pont Alexandre et le Grand Palais
PARIS—Le Pont Alexandre et le Grand Palais
PARIS—La Madeleine
PARIS—La Madeleine
PARIS—L'Opera
PARIS—L'Avenue des Champs Elysees
PARIS—La Conciergerie
PARIS—Le Louvre et l'Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel