{"id":1658,"date":"2019-07-02T11:14:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T11:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2019-07-02T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T11:14:15","slug":"the-past-in-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"The past in colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most topographical postcards of the Edwardian period show a Britain in black &amp; white or sepia. Indeed, these are the ones collectors like best, especially the pin-sharp real photographs produced by local publishers. Coloured postcards are rated less and are generally cheaper to acquire, but\u00a0can be just as fascinating. Recently, inspired by the acquisition of a collection of &#8216;Clumber&#8217; series postcards published 1904-8 by Nottingham music &amp; gift store owner Albert Hindley (he named the series after the street where he worked), I resolved to publish a book based on them. A local photographer friend and I visited 125 locations in Nottingham and the surrounding area and took photos from as close as possible to the same vantage point that Hindley had used. His photos were hand-tinted before being printed and they give that Edwardian past a more real-life feel. Now we&#8217;ve published the resulting book, <strong><em>Edwardian Nottinghamshire in colour.<\/em><\/strong> The project took less than six months from concept to\u00a0delivery, and it was great fun &#8211; and a big challenge &#8211; to do.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1659\" src=\"http:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Clumber-Street-postcard.jpg\" alt=\"Clumber Street postcard\" width=\"558\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Clumber-Street-postcard.jpg 558w, https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Clumber-Street-postcard-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Clumber-Street-postcard-300x476.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1660\" src=\"http:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hippodrome-postcard.jpg\" alt=\"Hippodrome postcard\" width=\"564\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hippodrome-postcard.jpg 564w, https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hippodrome-postcard-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hippodrome-postcard-300x471.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1661\" src=\"http:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sherwood-rly-stat-pc.jpg\" alt=\"Sherwood rly stat pc\" width=\"709\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sherwood-rly-stat-pc.jpg 709w, https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sherwood-rly-stat-pc-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most topographical postcards of the Edwardian period show a Britain in black &amp; white or sepia. Indeed, these are the ones collectors like best, especially the pin-sharp real photographs produced by local publishers. Coloured postcards are rated less and are generally cheaper to acquire, but\u00a0can be just as fascinating. Recently, inspired by the acquisition of <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/?p=1658\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}