Hotels

I always find it odd that postcards of hotels can make for some of the best boring postcards. I give you this as an example.

Again, you may disagree with me that it's boring. I think it makes the hotel look like a prison. Maybe it was one...

Tesco at Dorchester

And it's been used! Sent in 1993 alerting someone to the fact that it was bargain day!

So What's Boring?

Looking down some of the comments, I can see I've stirred up a common question with this blog: Just what is boring?

Of course I'm not going to tell you what you should think and the term is a bit general. I suppose to sum it up, I feel that these are some of the most unlikely postcards you may wish to send. Sure the photo of the Mersey Tunnel is quite stunning but why would you send that as a postcard?

Anyway, I hope the blog's enjoyable whether you agree with some of the posts or not and please keep commenting. In the meantime I give you The Old Rectory, Crowhurst - New Wing.

More next week.

PS Bert if you're still reading - yes I would be very interested in some of your Russian postcards.

More Railway

I am delighted and also a little embarassed to find that, having neglected this blog for some time, I now have followers!

I am sincerely grateful. It is disheartening to think that you are just doing this with no-one reading and therefore you have inspired me to carry on so Thank You.

Please enjoy this card, the second in my railway collection, depicting the coming of the Docklands Light Railway. This shows the Construction of trackbed and station foundations in Devons Road, 3rd July 1985. I promise I will be back with an update next week.

Matt

Railways

Firstly my apologies for not blogging for a while. In my other role as a supposedly responsible single parent I find that school summer holidays tend to put all my other projects on hold.

So for now I will just post this card that I recently picked up depicting the Docklands Light Railway before it was constructed - this is a 'Derelict Elevated Route East of Limehouse 1983' Enjoy and I promise I'll be back again next week.

Howcroft Head Greetland

When I first started writing about Boring Postcards back in 1999, I had hoped that one day I might write a book about them.

Unbeknown to me, I had already been beaten to it by Martin Parr and his brilliant 'Boring Postcards' which was published by Phaidon shortly after I'd started my writing. I got to meet Martin shortly afterwards and this card, which he sent to me, is another of my favourites. It also appears in the book so do check it out if you haven't already got a copy.

Southend Pier Damage

Another odd card: This one depicts pier damage at Southend on Sea in the 1980's. Incredibly it's one of a 'collectors series'! I don't know how many there are but this is number 4. (I happen to have two by the way)

The series shows damag to to the pier caused by the tanker Kingsabbey. Luckily for us this one concentrates on the lifeboat station which was declared unsafe and had to be blown up. Hee the station can be seen both pre and post explosion - enjoy!