The collection starts with a card sent to George H Barber in 1906.
A quick look at the online census collections has enabled me to find out a little of the family background to the story told by these postcards, and to begin to be able to understand the lives of these people who have been so familiar to me (through their postcards) for over 50 years.
George Henry Charles Barber was born in 1871 in Bethnal Green, London. His father, also named George Barber, was a draper’s assistant who was originally from Foulsham in Norfolk.
George Henry Charles Barber married Annie Crerar on October 2nd 1900 at the parish church in Hornsey, London. Annie, born in 1870, was the daughter of Alexander Crerar, a printer originally from Perth in Scotland.
At the time of their marriage George gave his occupation as “clerk” and Annie was a milliner. According to the 1901 census George and Annie began their married life at 76 Lausanne Road, Hornsey, not far from Annie’s parents who lived in Hornsey Park Road.
A daughter, Winifred Emily, was born in 1902. By 1906, when the first postcard in the collection dropped through their letter box, the family were living at 1 Moffat Road, Palmers Green.
The story of their postcards begins….
Connections in time: The Barber postcards 