Bassingham, Lincolnshire, on old postcards and photographs
Images of my own collection as well as others that I have found elsewhere (including across the internet).
My thanks go to John Brogan for lending me some postcards to show the demise of the windmill at Carlton. I include these because the subject cropped up in discussion of what happened to Bassingham’s windmills. All very interesting!
Click the picture and scroll to the end of the page to read about the mill and see the postcards.
I have now acquired my own copy of an early postcard of “The Bugle Horn“. I’d already seen one or two examples of it online and in a book, but had never managed to track one down – until now.
You can read a history of the oldest pub in the village by clicking the picture or by going to the ‘BUILDINGS’ section of this website.
I purchased a postcard last week which I have now received and enlarged to make the details clear. Click the picture here and scroll down to find out about both the Road Car company and the petrol pump at the southern end of the High Street.
I have added images of two more greetings cards that I found on the Worthpoint.com online website. I don’t own them, but they are definitely worth including here, and one of them provides a connection with a very well-known village family.
Click the image here to see them.
I have created a section dedicated to ‘Greetings Cards’ of which I now have four different examples. Because they are not actually views of the village they didn’t really fit elsewhere until now. This also gives me the chance to showcase another new purchase, that of a 1912 card debt from Dunholme to Rachel Smart in Bassingham.
Click the picture here to see the gallery of greetings cards and the opportunity to find out about Rachel.
Bassingham Back Then... 