£5,000
Local Interest. A comprehensive collection of approx. 1,200 postcards, late 19th-mid 20th c, real photographic and printed, mostly b/w, some colour, principally Ilkeston material, but also surrounding villages and towns in both Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, including Cotmanhay, West Hallam, Cossall, Awsworth, Trowell, Risley, Strelley, Kimberley, Ambergate, Ripley, Aldercar, Codnor, Ironville, Heanor, Langley Mill, Langwith, Long Eaton, Stapleford and Sandiacre, sport, including local football teams, Stanton Gate Rovers 1905, Awsworth Rovers 1910-11, Cossall St Cahterine's 1913-14, Trowell St Helen's 1923-24, further sport, Ilkeston Hospital Sports 1905, various local industry, among others Ilkeston & Heanor Water Works, Brookhill Collieries at Pinxton, the Blackwell Colliery Rescue Team, World War One series of Clay Cross Colliery and its Collier-Territorials, the Flour Mill at Langley Mill, Wagon Smash at Morton Colliery, Stanton Iron Works, transport, the railway and rolling stock, occasional stations or platforms, some trams, fewer motor cars, the 1907 Horse Show on Alfreton Market Place, Heanor Urban Council fire engine and firemen, additional scenes of real life, residential streets, some processions, May Day and pole, lifeboat charity, amateur dramatics, brass bands, local country houses, including Shipley Hall and its grounds, Strelley Hall and Ogston Hall, parish churches, named-view topography and some antiquities, including Dale Abbey and its Hermitage, local advertising, humour, the collection in Secol packets and enclosed in seven of their blue cloth Solander boxboard binders, (7)
Mixed condition
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