Wednesday 8 April 2015

Sepia Saturday 274 : 11 April 2015


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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15 comments:

  1. ScotSue8 April 2015 at 18:48

    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.

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  2. La Nightingail9 April 2015 at 00:30

    Coal & where & how it burns.

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  3. Brett Payne9 April 2015 at 11:17

    A grand tour from me this week.

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  4. tony10 April 2015 at 02:47

    I;m in! Hoping everybody had a good Easter x

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  5. Jofeath10 April 2015 at 04:53

    My husband never knew hi grandfather Joseph Featherston, who was a coal train driver.

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  6. Wendy10 April 2015 at 12:08

    My great grandparents lived next door to a coal dealer -- how's that for a connection?

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  7. Postcardy10 April 2015 at 12:31

    Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal--some vintage postcards and videos.

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  8. Unknown10 April 2015 at 15:23

    No coal...but plenty of harness for those horses!

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  9. DougVernX10 April 2015 at 21:56

    I'm a bit serious this week. Sorry if I'm preachy.

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  10. Barbara Rogers11 April 2015 at 01:43

    Not vintage to share, but the devastation of mountaintops, political actions to stop their removals for coal; and a whole lot of horses.

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  11. Mike Brubaker11 April 2015 at 04:50

    A postcard that was my alternate choice for last weekend. I've paired it with another postcard which has horses to fit the theme.

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  12. Little Nell11 April 2015 at 08:37

    Equestrian statues for me.

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  13. Boobook11 April 2015 at 12:19

    This week I'm using a photo I purchased rather than one from our own albums.

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  14. Kristin11 April 2015 at 19:52

    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

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  15. Anonymous12 April 2015 at 01:51

    Used a poster which I can lonk to a postcard I had copied. Recruiting for the First World War.

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