Bradford and Amsterdam - 1974

[squirmelia]

These postcards of Bradford and Amsterdam were torn from a scrapbook that was smeared with glue and greetings cards, a scrapbook that I barely remember. Rough fragments of grey sugar paper clung to the backs of the postcards, covering most of the words that had been written. The postmark revealed that 1974 was the year the cards had travelled, years before I was born, and many more years before I would go to Amsterdam myself. I've still never been to Bradford.

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[electrodeserter.livejournal.com]

Forgive the obvious question, then, but why do you have a postcard of Bradford in 1974?

I love things which evoke the nonglamorous seventies. I don't know why, perhaps the mind simply needs a counterbalance between all the glammy punky stuff and the rest, a reminder that the 1976 Hartlepool Industrial Conference was going on at the same time or something. I don't know what I'm talking about.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

My mum made me sort out my old toys and stuff, and I found one of the scrapbooks I had glued such things in when I was a child. Presumably someone had visited Bradford and sent it to her or my grandmother, and they then let me cover it with glue. :) It looks so dreamy somehow.