A postcard sent in 1903 has finally reached its destination in Swansea, 121 years late.
The postcard, addressed to Lydia Davies, was delivered to the Swansea Building Society on Cradock Street, where staff were surprised by its arrival. The card features a painting by Edwin Henry Landseer and was sent by someone named Ewart. Lydia Davies, believed to have been 16 at the time, lived on Cradock Street over a century ago.
The postcard arrived without any additional packaging or explanation, leaving its journey a mystery. The building society’s marketing officer, Henry Darby, expressed hopes of finding Lydia’s descendants so the card could be returned to her family as a keepsake. Census records suggest Lydia married a man from London, making it challenging to trace her relatives. Royal Mail stated that the postcard was likely reintroduced into the postal system recently, rather than being lost for over a century.
The discovery has sparked curiosity, with many wondering how the postcard found its way back after all these years.
very interesting
I loved reading it because, I never knew that maybe chocolate might be gone in the future!
save the chocolate…
I enjoyed this reading because
it show what climate changes does!!
they might have to move most chocolate into a colder place, since the climate clock is getting low
so temperature might get higher.
i love chocolate
I’m allergic to dairy, but this makes me sad for my best friends all around NZ (don’t think it’s weird because I actually do). And my chocolate loving cousin, her name is Dana (I’m from South Korea and she told me how to spell her name in Korean but its not pronounced like Dana).
I know that there are chocolate lovers around the world so, poor them or if you like chocolate poor you (even though I’m allergic to dairy, or to make it easy dairy products: cheese, milk, butter etc).