VICTORIA 1d Red QV Postcard "GPO MELBOURNE" 18APR.11 BEROWRA GORDON ST,ARNCLIFF

AUSTRALIA
VICTORIA

(Thematic ~ Clock Tower, Tram, Bicycle)

110 YEARS OLD  ONE PENNY QUEEN VICTORIA Pictorial POST CARD showing General Post Office, Melbourne  postal history from Melbourne with various circular and label postmarks dated  MELBOURNE 18APR.11  and VICTORIA addressed to  Miss H. ?? "Berowra" Gordon St,  (now 3 Farrar Road) Arncliff, Sydney NSW  , in good to fine condition.

Please refer to attached image for the old elegant cursive writing on the post card. Hope I have read the Addressee and Address correctly!! It's a nice message which said "Dear Hilda, We had a very smooth passage over to Melbourne. It was very nice not long though. I went up to the G.P.O yesterday. Went to get some stamps. It is not such a nice Building as ours. I think the sunset was lovely last night looking from the front down the .. with all the other ships."

A fine piece of postal history for study for historian on the early life in Victoria Era in Australia in the 1910s.  "Berowra" Gordon Street, Arncliff appears to be related to the two-story brick house built by William Edward Esdaile in the 1897.  ~ "By 1895 the family were back living at Gordon Street Arncliffe, and Edward purchased an adjoining, but more elevated site in Gordon Street (now 3 Farrar Road) Arncliffe. This was to be his next stepping-stone and he built Berowra, a split level two-storey brick house around 1897. This was quite an achievement for Edward, considering that he had purchased the Gordon Street cottage in 1893 and at a time when the country was plunged into a severe economic depression. To acquire sufficient funds to build a large new house during such a period was quite remarkable."  If you are interested in the history, please refer to "https://esdailefamily.wordpress.com/the-5-sons/about/william-edward-esdaile/" for more.

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