Z1306/5/6/1a-b

View of Birchfields Road, then called Windmill Road, from the junction with Green End Road. Photograph by Frank Sweetland, Bedford.

c.1914

From: 1908 To: 1914

Z1306/5/6/1a sent to Miss Lizzie Goodman, London 1914. Message reads: "Dear Lizzie, I was very please to see such a nice letter from you I think your dad might have come here with you as you both had a holiday together you would have had a nice time down here the soldiers are here every day with there bagpipiers and finery [?] all out the back grand mother can see them up Greens fields and the back windows. Tell grandmother this is Windmill Rd where I go with my truck in the summer hope you are all well as we are Willie is learning to knit so he can make a scarf for the soldiers uncle Jim went to list but was to old just amused aunt Lavia there are 6 gone from here. The soldiers gave grandfather a pot of jam. With love to all from aunt Jane xxxx."

2 copies, one sent, one unsent.

Photographic postcard

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Goodman, Lizzie,
Sweetland, Frank

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