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This item from our archive is an unused colour postcard decorated with a cartoon drawing of two fishermen, circa 1910.
The caption underneath reads “you’ll ruin all my Tackle, stand still my good fellow I’ll pull it out”.
#WorldCartoonistDay
For #FairFriday we look at Frederick Savage's early designs for gallopers. These images show his Platform Gallopers. The mechanics were positioned under the horse and rocked it backwards and forwards. The design was later replaced by a system of overhead cranks #CitSciMonth
This is a postcard showing a wreath of mixed pansies. Pansies was an early 20th century terms for “flamboyant gay men.”
Today Paul Harfleet plants pansies at the site of homophobic abuse for the @ThePansyProject.
#QueerNMS #LGBTHM21
@PenshurstPlace @YorkAdventurers @NTChastleton @CheniesManor @romanpalace @YorkshireMuseum @hevercastle @leedscastleuk #MuseumSnap
This chap looks anxious as he mines in a narrow seam in this postcard from about 1910.
£3 reward for any information about a robbery in King’s Lynn! In January 1852 robbers broke into the Gaywood home of Mr William Rollin stealing a variety of items. #PadAlong
Did you hear @MelissaHawker, Learning Officer on @BBCNorfolk this morning talking about Christmas traditions?
Click here to listen again
https://t.co/ZewBZ8FNO8
#MuseumsUnlocked #Humour
Here are a couple of cartoon from our collection:
a cartoon of Richard Forster from 1949
a postcard depicting cartoon drawing of two fishermen, with humorous caption from 1910.
And the winner is: the Sea Monster!
A great choice as we have not one, but TWO drawings for this ride!
@timetidemuseum #AskACurator https://t.co/9JUL5T0bmh
We get a rapid rush through Dickens’ greatest hits:
Hard Times
Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
and
David Copperfield.
#CopperfieldAlong