St. Martin's Church thrusts its Gothic spire skyward above the bustling Bull Ring market square in Birmingham, England — double-decker buses, period automobiles, and hurrying pedestrians animating the foreground of this crisp sepia real-photo-style postcard from around 1950. The Bull Ring was one of Britain's oldest market sites, and within two decades of this card being sent, the entire area would be demolished for the controversial 1960s shopping centre redevelopment — making views like this precious historical documents of a vanished cityscape. The back tells an equally compelling story: written in dense, urgent German script and postmarked Birmingham, November 14, 1950, the card was sent by someone identified as writing on 17.11.50 to the Zimmermann family in Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany — a city dominated by the Opel automobile works, still rebuilding in the early post-war years. The sender addresses "Liebe Eltern u. Opel" (Dear Parents and Opel), offering a poignant cross-Channel glimpse of a German worker or emigrant writing home during the hardscrabble aftermath of World War II.