Antique & Vintage Postcards

Two swift streams converge in a tumult of white water among moss-covered boulders at Watersmeet, Lynmouth — one of Exmoor's most dramatic natural junctions — in this crisp real-photo postcard likely taken in the 1920s or 1930s. The long-exposure photograph turns the East Lyn River into a silken rush of motion, while bare-branched oaks cling to the steep valley sides and a whitewashed building peeks from the left edge, hinting at the tea house that has welcomed walkers here since Victorian times. Printed on genuine photographic paper and labeled "This is a Real Photograph" and "British Manufacture" on the undivided communication-side, this RPPC preserves Watersmeet as it looked decades before the catastrophic 1952 Lynmouth flood that reshaped the entire valley. A pristine, unused example with no fading.