Looe Island & Hannafore Point Cornwall 1970s John Hinde

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Hannafore Point & Looe Island, Cornwall. Photo: H. Gossler
• Publisher:  John Hinde Ltd. (2DC 258)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  11½p drab Machin
• Postmark(s):  Plymouth Cornwall & West Devon 9 Sep 1981
• Sent to:  Dunstable, Beds.
• Notes & Key words: 

John Hinde was an English photographer who set up John Hinde Ltd in Dublin, ireland in the early 1960s. He produced most of the earlier cards himself before employing other photogaphers such as E.Nägele, E. Ludwig, D. Noble and other names who spent a long time getting just the right view, usually with people in the foreground. The prints were then artistically hand processed and manipulated in Italy (long before digital production) before being published. His company was also closely associated with Butlins and they produced many of their cards. The company’s cards have become popular with collectors in recent years due to exhibitions and being featured in books, particularly by photographer and postcard collector Martin Parr. They were influential in the development of commercial photography and postcard images and now are regarded as miniature works of art and social records in themselves, particularly those of the 1960s and 1970s.

------------------------------------------------

Postage & Packing:

UK (incl. IOM, CI & BFPO): 99p

Europe: £1.60

Rest of world (inc. USA etc): £2.75

No additional charges for more than one postcard. You can buy as many postcards from me as you like and you will just pay the fee above once. (If buying postcards with other things such as books, please contact or wait for invoice before paying).

Payment Methods:

UK - PayPal, Cheque (from UK bank) or postal order

Outside UK: PayPal or Google Checkout ONLY please.   NO non-UK currency checks or money orders (sorry).

NOTE: All postcards are sent in brand new stiffened envelopes which I have bought for the task. These are specially made to protect postcards and you may be able to re-use them. In addition there are other costs to sending so the above charge is not just for the stamp!

----------------------------------------------

Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

*************

Looe Island, also known as St George's Island, and historically St Michael's Island is a small island a mile from the mainland town of Looe in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

According to local legend, Joseph of Arimathea landed here with the child Christ. Others have identified the island as Ictis, the location described by Diodorus Siculus as a center for the tin trade in pre-Roman Britain.

People have been coming to the island since the Iron Age. Evidence of early habitation includes pieces of Roman amphora as well as stone boat anchors ^[1]. In the Dark Ages, the island was used a seat of early Christian settlement. There was a chapel and dwellings.

In the later Medieval period, the island came under the control of Glastonbury Abbey. This continued until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 when it became property of the Crown.

Through the 17th and 18th centuries the island was a popular haunt for smugglers avoiding the British government's revenue cutters out of Plymouth and Falmouth.

In the 20th century, Looe island was owned (and inhabited) by two sisters, Babs and Evelyn Atkins, who wrote two books: We Bought An Island (1976, ISBN 0245529403) and its sequel Tales From Our Cornish Island (1986, ISBN 0245542655). They chronicle the purchase of the island and what it was like to live there. Evelyn died in 1997 at the age of 87; Babs continued to live on the island until her death in 2004, at the age of 86. On her death, the island was made a bequest to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust; it will be preserved as a nature reserve in perpetuity.