Postcard event hopes to deliver new fans

This postcard depicting Westwood Road, Beverley, is believed to have been published in 1908

An East Yorkshire college will host what organisers say is the "biggest fair of vintage postcards in the North of England".

The Postcard Traders Association (PTA) will run the two-day event at Bishop Burton on Wednesday and Thursday.

About 95 dealers from the UK, Germany and the Netherlands will attend, along with collectors of vintage postcards, stamps and cigarette cards.

PTA chairman Dave Davis said: "We hope this new event will put the north back on the postcard map."

The two-day fair at Bishop Burton College has been described as the biggest in the North of England by organisers

Mr Davis added: "Collecting postcards was all the rage in Edwardian times and until the outbreak of World War One.

"It was a significant means of communication in an age before use of the telephone was widespread and whilst photographs were still uncommon in newspapers."

The PTA said it hoped collectors would support the event after seeing the numbers of similar fairs fall as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The East Yorkshire show on Wednesday will run from 10:00 until 17:00 BST and on Thursday from 10:00 until 16:00.

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