BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Raphael Nadolny on March 22, 2022 at 1:40pm

Wieluń, a fragment of a contemporary housing estate. Postcard sent in 1967. This town is located in central Poland, near Lodz. The city is sometimes called "Polish Guernica" due to the bestiality of the Luftwaffe towards civilians during the bombing raids on September 1, 1939. The raids began at 4.40 a.m., before Hitler declared war on Poland. The city was destroyed in about 70-75% - from the buildings of the market square only the former Piarist college survived. The complex of buildings of the All Saints' Hospital (the main building from 1840) and the synagogue from 1842 were also completely destroyed. The 14th century church of St. Michael was also seriously damaged, and after being robbed of its valuable monuments, it was blown up by the Germans in the spring of 1940. Now the same thing is happening in Ukraine.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 15, 2022 at 9:21am

Thanks Raphael, I will try and get this book to add to my collection, and hope that it's available. It's not available from Amazon Poland, France or the UK, but I'll keep on looking for it. Regards, Val

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 14, 2022 at 1:03pm

'Just noticed that the postcards arrived from Greece,Val :-)

EDESSA is the name of the place and the river: Edesseos..

which flows through the town and becomes a high waterfall, famous in the Balkans, and a place to visit to see this wonder (which, if you have seen Niagara falls...this is a bit "boring")

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on March 14, 2022 at 11:36am

Few examples from a book by Mikolaj Dlugosz "Summer in the city".

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on March 14, 2022 at 11:31am

Dear Mark, in Poland in 2016 there was published a book by Mikolaj Dlugosz "Summer in the city", which is a selection of 160 frames, from tens of thousands of frames that were taken by many photographers between 1970 and 1989 for the purpose of printing postcards. Photographers sent out into the field were given the same instructions - the criteria according to which the pictures were to be taken. This is why such works are coherent, even though they are the work of dozens of different authors working over a period of 20 years.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 14, 2022 at 10:27am

Welcome Axel! I hope you will be an active participant in the Group. Please send me some Boring Postcards of Barcelona, Catalonia,Spain and anywhere and everywhere else.. Thankyou. Val

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 14, 2022 at 10:24am

Welcome Juanita! I hope you will be an active participant in the Group.  Please send me some Boring Postcards. Thankyou. Val

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on March 10, 2022 at 4:54pm

Swinoujście (Swinemünde) - basen portowy - post card from 1980. 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 10, 2022 at 11:09am

CHARWOOD MUSEUM, 10 HIGH ST, LOUGHBOROUGH, ENGLAND -- the backgarden thereof with some funny metalic things on the lawn and in the flowerbeds;

Thanks to Alan Brignull  for this.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 10, 2022 at 11:06am

TWO POSTCARDS OF MANHOLE COVERS 'From a series of 12 silkscreens --original size, 65 x 65cms by Paul Baars.

Thanks to Mother Brandow"

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