Posted from the Lancashire coast in the golden summer of August 1955, this real-photograph multiview card from Barrow-in-Furness offers a vivid snapshot of a proud English industrial town at its mid-century peak — a place where massive ships slid down the ways at the famous Vickers-Armstrongs shipyard into Walney Channel, and where the high street on Dalton Road buzzed with shoppers and double-decker buses. Four crisp silver-gelatin panels compose the card: the leafy sweep of Abbey Road with its red double-decker, a towering ocean liner under the giant hammerhead cranes of The Docks, the civic grandeur of Ramsden Square with its memorial statue, and the commercial bustle of Dalton Road with its Woolworths sign just legible. Published by Valentine's of Dundee and London, the card was sent by Mary to a couple — Mr. & Mrs. T.M. — at 74 Isaac Street, Salford 5, Lancashire; Mary writes cheerfully that "the weather is lovely, the kids have been in the sea every day, and are getting quite brown. They are eating well." A warm, human document of a British seaside holiday, posted from Barrow on 18 August 1955 with a 2d Queen Elizabeth II stamp.