World Postcard Day – 1st October 2020

Episode for World Postcard Day with guest John Sheehan from Ghost Postcards.

Show Notes

It's World Postcard Day, and Ian and Amanda talk to John Sheehan from Ghost Postcards, who tells some great stories about old postcards, and shares how he has been able to reunite some of them with the relatives of their original senders and recipients. So have a listen, send a postcard for World Postcard Day, and if you haven't received one for a while then... well we have that covered too! Listen to find out more.

• The World Postcard Day website, and their Official Postcard.
• Links for Ghost Postcards:
  • John's first postcard, from his Ghost Postcards Origin Story.
  • Other postcards referenced including The Evolutions and the Mirror Writing postcards one, two and three.
  • The mysterious Spy Postcard.
  • Ghost Postcards on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
• Ian's Grandad on a Tower of London postcard.
• Postcard from the Past Twitter account
• Pete Doyle on Twitter
• Hartleys Auctioneers and Valuers in Ilkley

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