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Whenever I pick up old envelopes or postcards for the stamps, I go to google maps, and type in the address from the envelope. It's kind of fun for me to imagine what the addressee came home to when he or she was picking up the mail in 1913 or whatever. What also strikes me, is just how many of them are still valid addresses--it just seems like many of them would be razed over a century later. Anyone else do this?
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Hi Nevin,
Yes, I do a similar thing. I also like to Google the people involved in the communication. I like to try to find the story of why the communication was sent. It is amazing just how much information is out there.
Regards ... Tim.
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09:41:40pm
I have a side collection of UK stamps that have complete decypherable circular date cancels and when ever I find one from some town or village I am not familiar with, I check its location.
Before I had access to the PC I used several tools for that.
A detailed National Geographic map of the UK and one of Medieval England, A British Auto Club touring guidebook which is even more detailed and also has a good city and town index, and one of those "Frommer's Travel Books" for the UK.
Of course now much of that is replaced by the internets and a search engine.
Great Britain and Ireland are full of locations mentioned in history books and that is where my interest takes me at times.
On occasion I wonder what letter some King Edward VII stamp paid for 100 years ago. Perhaps a "Dear John" to some trooper stationed in India or somewhere distant. It is fun to just let the mind wander late in the evening about that kind of thing.
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I often use Google Maps to locate addresses. Street View is interesting to use once you've found an address. Locations are not precise, but at least you can get a good idea of what the neighbourhood looks like now, or at least when the images were recorded.
Here in Vancouver's Chinatown I've discovered that a parking lot next to a new office building has replaced a Chinese laundry that was there in the 1940s. I have a wartime cover from the Boeing company, also in Vancouver. It manufactured seaplanes during the war and was located in what is now part of Stanley Park between the Coal Harbour Seawall Promenade and Georgia Street, just six blocks from my apartment.
Bob
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12:34:43am
Here's something I've enjoyed doing the last year or so, and was wondering if others do it (or if I just am an apprentice stalker).
Whenever I pick up old envelopes or postcards for the stamps, I go to google maps, and type in the address from the envelope. It's kind of fun for me to imagine what the addressee came home to when he or she was picking up the mail in 1913 or whatever. What also strikes me, is just how many of them are still valid addresses--it just seems like many of them would be razed over a century later. Anyone else do this?
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re: Addresses on old mail...geography lessons
Hi Nevin,
Yes, I do a similar thing. I also like to Google the people involved in the communication. I like to try to find the story of why the communication was sent. It is amazing just how much information is out there.
Regards ... Tim.
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18 Oct 2011
09:41:40pm
re: Addresses on old mail...geography lessons
I have a side collection of UK stamps that have complete decypherable circular date cancels and when ever I find one from some town or village I am not familiar with, I check its location.
Before I had access to the PC I used several tools for that.
A detailed National Geographic map of the UK and one of Medieval England, A British Auto Club touring guidebook which is even more detailed and also has a good city and town index, and one of those "Frommer's Travel Books" for the UK.
Of course now much of that is replaced by the internets and a search engine.
Great Britain and Ireland are full of locations mentioned in history books and that is where my interest takes me at times.
On occasion I wonder what letter some King Edward VII stamp paid for 100 years ago. Perhaps a "Dear John" to some trooper stationed in India or somewhere distant. It is fun to just let the mind wander late in the evening about that kind of thing.
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re: Addresses on old mail...geography lessons
I often use Google Maps to locate addresses. Street View is interesting to use once you've found an address. Locations are not precise, but at least you can get a good idea of what the neighbourhood looks like now, or at least when the images were recorded.
Here in Vancouver's Chinatown I've discovered that a parking lot next to a new office building has replaced a Chinese laundry that was there in the 1940s. I have a wartime cover from the Boeing company, also in Vancouver. It manufactured seaplanes during the war and was located in what is now part of Stanley Park between the Coal Harbour Seawall Promenade and Georgia Street, just six blocks from my apartment.
Bob
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