A collection of risque postcards that titillated millions of seaside tourists in the 1950s, but landed their creators in hot water, are set to go online. The cards are among 1,300 confiscated by ...
Saucy seaside postcards are as much a part of Thanet's resort heritage as kiss me quick hats, sticks of rock and jellied eels. Promendade gift shops in Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs were once ...
Cheeky postcards were once part and parcel of any trip to the seaside. But in one British tourist resort, giant-sized versions of the risque cards are stirring up controversy. Traders in the town of ...
GUARDIANS of Britain’s seaside heritage have put out an SoS – Save our Saucy postcards. For well over a century, holidaymakers have chortled over risqué postcards on sale in resorts around the UK. But ...
A dispute between two respectable married women of the King Country turned ugly when a saucy postcard was viewed as a libellous accusation that one had cheated on her husband. Relations between ...
These days, Valentine’s Day is all about loved-up couples exchanging fancy gifts, nibbling on heart-shaped chocolates and going on a romantic date night. But what was romance like a century ago?
Ian Wallace is the man who bought a seaside postcard empire – and the intellectual property rights, too. IAN Wallace lays his cards on the table straight away, a bawdy bumper bundle in a ribald rubber ...