This is Alice Adams by the time she was Alice Greed and had three children. I discovered this faded photo of her today in my small collection - quite possibly taken at Bournemouth beach - with my grandmother and her brother with her.
Alice was the only sister of the boys that were writing the postcards to her, and we have her to thank for saving them in the first place. Their parents, Isabella and George, were still alive until 1927 and 1923 respectively, but nothing of theirs has survived, that I know of at least, so these postcards are the oldest surviving family correspondence. Who knows - perhaps one day someone will discover a box in an attic with all the cards and letters Alice wrote to his or her great grandparent. One can live in hope...
What I would also like to do is find out about all these places where she was staying. There is an assortment of addresses on the postcards; were they holiday places, or homes of relatives she was visiting, or did she move about a fair amount after she was married. Oddly enough, considering I know about her parents and grandparents, I don't even know what her husband, Frank, did for a living yet.
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