I think certain members of the family who shall remain nameless got a bit fed up of hunting dead people, as they put it, but I found it fascinating - I only wish we'd had more information to go on! Writing it up as a story likes this helps to shape the research in my mind - and it really helps that there are so many photographs to attach to the information, turning them from names on a page into actual people.

The postcards are fab - well done to my grampy Arthur for collecting them all from such a young age! I reckon it was that school attendance card he was awarded that kicked off the collection, and then he passed it on to my mum, who continued to collect cards throughout her childhood. There are so many! The earliest ones are the real treasures - we wouldn't have those Melton Constable addresses without them.