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This album represents a method of communication used pre computers and mobile phones and maybe even before widespread use of the telephone in the domestic setting(?) There are about 200 postcards collected by my great grandmother (the main recipient) which have been sent from many locations in the UK and abroad including Norway, Switzerland and the Congo. Some pictures (black and white or colour) are of dramatic locations or classic picture postcard villages (like this one) others relatively domestic e.g. Eltham High Street, London SE9. The messages range from "having a lovely time here" to "Mrs Burke passed away this morning about 2 O'clock am" to this one "home tonight". Messages of this type would now be sent by text or email and then be lost to cyberspace trash box. It may even have been a method of advertising "talking wont fetch that Biscuit box that Peak Frean and Co are offering. I hear the idea has caught on. Dont be too late." but this would need to be researched. The postcards reflect what was going on in domestic life and how they communicated at that time. There were obviously several posts a day according to the postmark time.