17 February 2008

Postcards from the seaside

Freshly added today, to http://www.postcardmania.co.uk/, a bio of Donald McGill, the king of the saucy postcard. From 1904 until his death in 1962 Donald McGill was responsible for many of the most iconic British seaside picture postcards. Over six million copies were printed of just one of his postcards, featuring the immortal lines, 'Do you like Kipling?', 'I don't know you naughty boy, I've never kippled!'

Coming soon to http://www.postcardmania.co.uk/, a brief history of Bamforth's of Holmfirth...

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