Looking out of the window and the sun is shining and Spring is in the air. The prospect for the coming months is warm summer sun, blue skies and Factor 98 Sun-screen. It is therefore a timely reminder from your Sepia Saturday host that you should be thinking of ordering your winter coal now. Our theme image for Sepia Saturday 274 - post your posts on or around Saturday 11 April 2015 - comes from the Library Company of Philadelphia (via the ever-faithful Flickr Commons) and shows a World War 1 era poster for the United States Fuel Administration. If you are a theme then you can think about horses, carts, coal, fuel, fires or posters. If you are a dreamer you can think about toasted bread around an open fire. Just make sure that amidst all that thinking you post your post and then link it to the list below.
And spare a thought for what is on the cart for the next couple of weeks
275 : Wires / Cables / Ladders / Sky
276 : Babies / Newlyweds (not necessarily in that order)
Such thoughts are for the future. For the present start shovelling those lumps of imaginary coal into the creative furnace that is Sepia Saturday
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Quick off the mark this week as I plough my furrow through the A-Z Challenge. Here I recount the story of my Oldham family connections - coalmen down three generations.
Coal & where & how it burns.
A grand tour from me this week.
I;m in! Hoping everybody had a good Easter x
My husband never knew hi grandfather Joseph Featherston, who was a coal train driver.
My great grandparents lived next door to a coal dealer -- how's that for a connection?
Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal--some vintage postcards and videos.
No coal...but plenty of harness for those horses!
I'm a bit serious this week. Sorry if I'm preachy.
Not vintage to share, but the devastation of mountaintops, political actions to stop their removals for coal; and a whole lot of horses.
A postcard that was my alternate choice for last weekend. I've paired it with another postcard which has horses to fit the theme.
Equestrian statues for me.
This week I'm using a photo I purchased rather than one from our own albums.
I was able to blog both A to Z and Sepia Saturday with Jefferson Cleage and his link to coal mining in Rhea County TN
Used a poster which I can lonk to a postcard I had copied. Recruiting for the First World War.
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