[Editor: This postcard, which incorporates a photograph of a beach at Flinders (Victoria), is undated; however, it is believed to have been published in the early 20th Century.]
[Front of postcard]
The bathing beach Flinders
N. J. Caire photo
[Description: A photograph of an uninhabited beach.]
[Reverse of postcard]
POST CARD
This space may be used for Correspondence. The address to be written here.
[Handwritten text, in italics]
Flinders
Dear Geil[?].
This is a view of Flinders, we are quite back [?] now.
A real country place, two old shops & you cannot see any thing [?]ely as there.
I think they are so bad as [?]under [?]bove for prices.
No station out here 15 miles [?]bly hot.
Here today & a roasting hot house, nearly kills me after Rippon Lea.
The storee[?] is such a si[?].
Wie[?] likes his new work.
Lots of love to you all & good wishes for Xmas.
Yr loving sister
Eve.
[No identifying information about the manufacturer was included on the postcard.]
Source:
Original document
Editor’s notes:
Dimensions (approximate): 138 mm. (width), 88 mm. (height).
This postcard is undated; however, it is believed to have been published in the early 20th Century.
This postcard includes a dividing line, which indicates designated areas for correspondence (on the left) and the address of the recipient (on the right), in line with the Australian postage regulations introduced in 1905.
Some of the handwritten text in the postcard’s message is unclear; the hard-to-read words are indicated in the text by the following notation: [?].
Flinders = a seaside town on the Mornington Peninsula (Victoria)
See: “Flinders, Victoria”, Wikipedia
N. J. Caire = Nicholas John Caire (1837-1918), photographer; he was born in Guernsey (Channel Islands) in 1837, came to Australia with his parents about 1860, and died in Armadale (Melbourne, Victoria) in 1918
See: 1) Jack Cato, “Nicholas John Caire (1837–1918)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography
2) “Nicholas John Caire 1837 – 1918”, photo – web
3) “Nicholas Caire”, Wikipedia
Rippon Lea = (also spelt: Ripponlea) a suburb of Melbourne (Victoria), situated to the south of the Melbourne central business district, immediately south of St Kilda and St Kilda East, and immediately to the west of the Rippon Lea Estate (the suburb is named after the estate); the Rippon Lea Estate, an historic mansion and gardens located in Elsternwick (Victoria)
See: 1) “Ripponlea”, Wikipedia
2) “Rippon Lea Estate”, Wikipedia
yr = (abbreviation) your
[Editor: For ease of reading, the original text has been separated into paragraphs, and punctuation has been inserted as deemed appropriate.]
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