St.Monans
Sail Away Sunday to the fishing grounds from the harbour at St.Monans in the East Neuk of Fife;
#oldpostcard
#postcard
#fishing
#SailAwaySunday
#AuldFifeKirk
#stmonans
#eastneuk
#fishingboats

Postbox Saturday
Old advertising postcard for Ripolin paint, artist Kilgour
#postbox
#royalmail
#postboxSaturday
#advertising
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Newport on Tay
1903, newest postcard view on sale of Kilnburn Place, looking down to the Tay from the junction at Victoria Street and Cupar Road.
#fife
#newportontay
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Leuchars
RAF headquarters building, classic military war time building structure on the air station
#fife
#leuchars
#raf
#militarybuilding
#architecture
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Pittenweem
Balcaskie House
#fife
#pittenweem
#eastneuk
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Thick Trunk Tuesday
Traction engine driving a sawmill, cutting and milling timber;
#sawmill
#timber
#tractionengine
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#workers
#socialhistory
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Blacksmith
Monday and back to work for this hard working village blacksmith; unidentified real photographic postcard
#worker
#blacksmith
#smiddy
#socialhistory
#postcard
#oldpostcard

P & O cruise ship
Sail Away Sunday
1950, P &O Chusan, ocean liner, exterior and internal postcards
#shipping
#liner
#cruise
#socialhistory
#SailAwaySunday
#PandO
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Postbox Saturday
Comic old postcard, artist illustrated about blue airmail postboxes
#royalmail
#post
#postbox
#postboxsaturday
#postcard
#oldpostcard

St.Monans
Valentines postcard used in 1904, The Neuk, St.Monans, showing the harbour at that time filled with fishing boats.
#stmonans
#eastneuk
#fife
#fishing
#socialhistory
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Construction
Large squad of labourers working on hand digging drainage trenches, not a mechanical digger in sight.
#construction
#workers
#socialhistory
#drainage
#sewers
#workmen
#engineering
#handdigging
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Leuchars
Early postcard of the former RAF station at Leuchars, now an army base, showing the newly constructed aircraft hangars, some still remaining today
#fife
#leuchars
#balmullo
#RAF
#army
#earlyaviation
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Road Workers
A squad of a dozen workmen pull a tar boiler and patch a roadway with tar and chips, they would make a great contribution today filling all our potholes
#construction
#workers
#workmen
#socialhistory
#roads
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Gardening
Lawnmower

Gardeners at work, mowing the lawn with the help of a horse pulling the mower.

#garden
#gardening
#gardeners
#lawn
#lawnmower
#grass
#workinghorse
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Newport on Tay
1913, submarine from the navy base at Dundee, submarine lying off Newport on Tay, old postcard for Sail Away Sunday

#fife
#newportontay
#dundee
#rivertay
#SailAwaySunday
#navy
#submarine
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Postbox Saturday

Early comic artist postcard off a drunk and postbox

#royalmail
#postbox
#comic
#beer
#drunk
#postboxsaturday
#postcard
#oldpostcard

St.Andrews
The sun is out for this 1950’s postcard of South Street, St.Andrews, no parking problems back then
#fife
#standrews
#cars
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Gardeners
Gardeners ready for a days work in the garden, postcard used in 1917
#gardeners
#gardening
#socialhistory
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Tayport
As temperatures continue to rise time for a dook in the harbour at Tayport, using the ferry Dolphin as a diving platform
#fife
#tayport
#rivertay
#swimming
#coldwaterswimming
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Gardening
Gardening class at Laurelbank School, Glasgow
#socialhistory
#education
#garden
#gardening
#glasgow
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Bricklayers
Monday morning and it’s back to work for this squad of bricklayers on a new housing construction site
#socialhistory
#bricklayer
#brickwork
#workmen
#construction
#scaffold
#postcard
#oldpostcard

SS Adriatic
White Star Line, Adriatic passing the Needles, old postcard for Sail Away Sunday, used in 1910.
#sailawaysunday
#whitestar
#shipping
#adriatic
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Postbox Saturday
Artist Lawson Wood, novelty pull-out postcard, teddy bears, from Lochgilphead, used in 1950;
#postboxsaturday
#lawsonwood
#teddybear
#lochgilphead
#postbox
#royalmail
#postcard
#oldpostcard

St.Monans 1945
Message on postcard back sent in August 1945, telling friends her husband due home tomorrow from the war, where he has been on service in Italy
#VEDay
#fife
#stmonans
#eastneuk
#postcard
#oldpostcard

St.Andrews
South Street postcard used in 1903, huge contrast to today’s traffic congested bottleneck street.
#standrews
#fife
#postcard
#oldpostcard

St.Monans
East Shore, St.Monans
#fife
#eastneuk
#stmonans
#fishingboats
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Dundee
Angus Hotel, now demolished, replaced with another shopping centre
#dundee
#nethergate
#overgate
#architecture
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Tayport
On the golf links at Tayport, golf clubhouse.
#fife
#tayport
#golf
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Newport on Tay
Dundee
HMTS Mars and her brig Francis Mollison berthed on the Tay at Woodhaven, Dundee skyline filled with chimneys in the distance
#newportontay
#woodhaven
#dundee
#rivertay
#sailawaysunday
#postcard
#oldpostcard

Postbox Saturday
Novelty pull-out postcard, souvenir from Pudsey

#postboxsaturday
#royalmail
#postman
#postbox
#pudsey
#postcard
#oldpostcard