Found in books 11: when flying was fun

[callmemadam]

Haven’t done one of these posts for quite a while. The postcard shows the terminal at Gatwick Airport and is postmarked on the back August 1963. In those days, we had legible postmarks on our mail! The senders were just setting off on holiday and sent a last minute card to a friend. Can you imagine sending such a card today?

Comments

[land_girl]

I bet that check in wasn't such a misery in those days!

I have the Phaidon Boriing Postcards books whic are full of postcards like that (and of course aren't boring at all).

What a lovely find - the books and the card.

[callmemadam]

It all looks so civilised, doesn't it?

Does that book have postcards of motorway service stations? They're quite collectable, I believe!

A piece of luck and it was only drizzling then, so I had quite a good outing. Real rain set in later and hasn't stopped since. I must make a rainy icon.

[lurpak]

good find, and how smart they all look!

[callmemadam]

Only the middle classes could afford to travel in those days (oops! true, though) and see my earlier post about Venetian Rhapsody, where the young woman travels in a new tweed suit etc.