Bermondsey Through The Prism Of Postcards
Staff Reporter (15 March, 2021)
My nan used to tell me about the old town halls and theatres before they were bombsites
After collecting postcards to and from Bermondsey and Rotherhithe where he was born and bred, Micky Holland decided to write a book about the people who sent and received the postcards he collected,
writes Elizabeth Paul.
What made you write a book?
‘After years of looking at the pictures on the front I began looking at the messages on the back and realised there was a lot more interest and drama there… I discovered I had many postcards going to the same people and couldn’t make out why. But then someone told me that collecting postcards was popular a hundred years ago, like collecting stamps, and that I now had some of their collections, collections they had left when they died.’