These are some old postcards which I've kept from Le Crotoy. I've quite a few and I should go through them one day. The first shows the dunes beyond the beach. The Caudron Brothers had their flying school there. There are some fascinating images to be found of the early planes, fliers, and 'over the bay' flights and suchlike in some of the local postcards. Next is a picture of the station cafe. I'm also including some postcards of the port and the fishing boats which used to work out of Le Crotoy. Then are some images of the beach when it was busy in summer. Grannies and aunts always seem to be getting on with something behind windbreaks when they were on the beach. The next to last picture is of the street where I used to live.
Postcards are valued and are more expensive for not having been used, which suits me because I enjoy reading the correspondences and especially when stuff is written all over the fronts as well as the backs because there was so much to tell, and so these are the cheapest and easiest to find in markets. I've included a really gentle holiday one. You can find pretty much all of the human condition written on a postcard; anything from the saddest ones which were saved and used later during the Great War, to the secret summer assignations of cousins. Mostly there's lots of really happy holiday stories.
Great bits of history
Love the buildings and shuttered windows in the previous post
Posted by: marge | 19 March 2014 at 08:06 AM