Postcard: 19060922-HighStreet

Publisher(s) WH Hooke
Sent toMiss Shorne, The Priory, Monk Sherbourne, Basing Stoke
MessageDear Miss Shorne, I shall be delighted to see you tomorrow. Hope it will be fair. Sincerely yours E W.
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SizeStandard
Printing processCollotype

I'm never quite able to work out what's going on with the figure in the foreground of this photograph - it looks like there may have been some alteration of the photograph before printing. Several of the shops can be identified: Thomas Hodnett, a Grocer on the right at #16, The silversmith and antique shop in #2 (would become Braggs), The shop with "..TY ..ICE" is King, Adkin and Bowen at #10 who are still in business in Wantage. Sign actually reads "COUNTY FIRE OFFICE LTD", the Lion Hotel on the left is the oldest secular building in Abingdon.

The front of an old postcard. The postcard is of Abingdon: Town Centre Streets
The reverse of an old postcard. The postcard is of Abingdon: Town Centre Streets