Antique & Vintage Postcards

Sun-dappled lanes, a shingled shoreline, and the quiet prosperity of an English seaside village between the wars — this real-photo multiview of Goring-by-Sea in West Sussex captures the village at its genteel interwar peak, when families like those who might have stayed at the handsome Mulberry Hotel came down from London for long summer weeks. Five vignettes compose the card: the Mulberry Hotel with its Arts-and-Crafts roofline and manicured garden beds; Sea Lane with its vintage motor car parked beneath mature trees; a canopied Yew Way tunnel of ancient clipped yews that still draws visitors today; Court House set in its generous grounds; and the shingle beach with bathers visible against the silver Channel horizon. Published by Shoesmith & Etheridge of Hastings under their "Norman" brand — a respected regional real-photo publisher — the card carries the "Greetings and Best Wishes" left-margin text suggesting it was marketed as a souvenir gift card. Card number 6074 helps date production to the mid-1930s. Unposted and in excellent condition, the tonal quality of the photographs is particularly crisp.