This postcard from Rita shows a view of the Brisbane River looking South-East from the top of Queen Street towards the Kangaroo Point cliffs, with the Customs House in the foreground.
It shows a view in the opposite direction compared to this postcard which was taken around the same time.
A postcrossing post card from Catherine, in Sichuan, south-west China.
Catherine loves good food from all over the world, but she says Sichuan food is the best.
Thanks for the card, Catherine!
A postcard from my mate Simon who is currently taking a quick holiday in the UK.
Hope you’re having a good time, Simon!
By the way, for you Fawlty Towers fans, the middle left picture is of Torquay. (Don’t mention the war)
Thanks for the postcard, Simon!
A postcard from Catarina in Lisbon.
The photo shows Lisbon in the 1940’s.
Catarina is currently completing her Masters Degree Biomedical Engineering, which means she hasn’t had much of a vacation this summer 🙂
Thanks for the card, Catarina!
I found the image on the right here. Many of the features in it match those in the postcard which places it as I thought at Petrie Bight. The photo on the right is from Picture Queensland, the State Library of Queensland, dated 1924. Here’s what the info about the picture says:
Wharves at Petrie Bight, Brisbane. The S.S. ‘Royal City’, 5411 gross tons and 3481 nett tons, docked at Nixon-Smiths wharves, Circular Quay, on 17 February, 1924. The S.S. ‘Royal City’ is discharging 19, 399 cases of kerosene, 20,000 cases of benzine and motor spirit and 650 tons of general cargo from New York and Port Arthur.
The 1924 picture has many additional buildings not in the postcard, so I’m sticking with my guess that the postcard is dated around 1910.
Unfortunately, I don’t think the ships in both pictures are the same. The stern of SS Royal City in the picture on the right is quite different from the stern of the vessel in the postcard.
Even so, it’s great to be able to more accurately date and place the postcard.
A postcard from Angela in England.
I am guessing, but I think this picture looks north-east towards Petrie Bight from Customs House. It’s probably dated between 1900 to 1910. Unfortunately there’s no stamp on the back of the postcard, and no postmark. The writer didn’t date the card, so we can only guess!
At the turn of the century, Petrie Bight, downstream from the city centre was occupied by wharves.
The houses in the top right of the picture are probably on Bowen Terrace, New Farm.
For comparison, see another picture of this area around the same time.
A Postcard from Miry.
RMS Baltic is the twin funnelled ship whose stern is visibile in the picture.
At the time she was built in 1903, RMS Baltic was the largest ship in the world, with a GRT of 23,876 and a length of over 222 metres.
She was the third of a set of four ships dubbed “The Big Four”, abd built for the famous White Star line by Harland and Wolff in Belfast – the same yard that made RMS Titanic.
Her maiden voyage was from Liverpool (the port seen in the picture) to New York in 1904. Her Captain, Edward J Smith was later to be the captain of RMS Titanic in 1912.
In 1909 she rescued survivors of the collision between another White Star Liner, RMS Republic, and SS Florida off the coast of Newfoundland.
In 1912 she transmitted ice warnings to RMS Titanic before that ship’s fateful collision with an iceberg.
In 1929 she rescured passengers of the sinking ship, Northern Light.
She was scrapped in Osaka in 1933.
This postcard was mailed in 1928 from Liverpool to France (see reverse side for details).
So much history in one postcard. How wonderful!
A postcard from Miry.
My father worked as a barman at “The Kings Head” in the early sixties before we migrated from the UK to Australia.
It wasn’t far from where we lived (Bexleyheath).
The owner of the pub, Frank Petty, begged Dad not to leave for Australia, but thankfully we did. Frank kindly sent us “The Times” calendar every year for many years after that. It hung proudly in our loo, showing a picture of one magnificent British garden for each month of the year.
