[#16 in the ‘Past to Present’ series from Jemverse]
One hundred sixteen years ago 'Old B' he wrote some lines and sent them to Molteno in those now long distant times I can't quite read his writing but I know so well the scene on the postcard that he used as it is a place I've been My hometown, Shoreham, Sussex coast though things have changed a tad my home since the mid sixties when I was just a lad And this little piece of cardboard though it's travelled many miles still serves the purpose given as it still keeps bringing smiles
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[Photo – of a postcard in the author’s collection].
William Henry Borrow (the artist) was 19th century English watercolorist who worked largely in Sussex between 1863 and 1893. This postcard, postmarked Bexhill-on-Sea (Sussex) on May 10 1906 and Molteno (South Africa) on 31 May 1906, is notable as it has travelled from Shoreham to South Africa and back to Shoreham again, 116 years after it was first purchased, written and sent.
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