Going Places: Warter Priory

Warter Priory, near Pocklington, Yorkshire, postmarked 1935, at which time the property was in the possession of the Hon George Ellis Vestey, younger brother of the 2nd Baron Vestey, sold on his death to the 4th Marquess of Normanby in 1968. In 1972 "the house was demolished, the splendid gardens bulldozed and the rubble used to fill in the nearby lake." [England's Lost Country Houses].
You go places and send postcards, or people used to. In this case the sender writes to her dear friend in Bramley, Leeds, that "I have just got this postcard which we have in Pock[lington] so you will know I am home safe when I post in Beverley."
In other words you could tell from the view of the landmark on the postcard where your friend had been or gone back to.
You will be interested to know that the Bramley Baths, built in 1904, have recently been restored and are an excellent example, even perhaps the only remaining example, of Edwardian swimming baths left in Leeds today.
Now I'm off to the gym, to the store, to LACMA and many other adventures and destinations. People to do, things to see, and so on.




don't forget to send a postcard!
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