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From: Brian Tompkins <>
Subject: Re: Postcards
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 23:55:04 -0400

At 10:51 AM 6/6/98 +0100, Hugh Pitfield wrote:
>As well as genealogy I have an interest in collecting postcards relating
>to my family history research. I am keen to obtain any old cards
>showing Symondsbury, Dorset - especially Symondsbury Manor. Can anybody
>put me in contact with postcard traders who specialise in this area of
>the country?
>Hugh Pitfield
>fanatical one name study for Pitfield
>

You might like to check out the Francis Frith collection. This site
provides access to 300,000 photographs depicting 7,000 British towns and
villages. Taken between 1860 and 1970 by the photographers of F.Frith & Co.
In there listing for Dorset there is one for the village of Symondsbury c1930

They can be found at http://www.francisfrith.com/

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