Colour Postcard: "Spooning in Wales", shows courting couples

COLOUR POSTCARD: "Spooning in Wales", shows courting couples.

Appended: NOTE: Dingle

Cefnodiad: Nodyn gan M. at Miss Thomas, Bank House, Brynsiencyn.

Postcards first became popular at the end of the Nineteenth Century. The Post Office gave permission for them to be sent through the post and it wasn’t long before they started getting a bit racy. By 1930 saucy postcards at the seaside became all the rage. Cartoons featuring stereotyped characters such as the fat vicar, the drunk, the “henpecked” husband were mixed with a liberal smattering of bawdy innuendo. The suggestive captions never quite spelt out sex but it was usually implied. During the 1930s 16 million cards were sold a year. Various companies produced them, with numerous cartoonist working on them. The biggest name was Donald McGill.

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Cyflwr da /Good condition

Compiled by Amanda Sweet for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

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