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Beside the Seaside

Cast your mind back to when you were a child and those exciting trips to the coast. There was always one thing you could guarantee to see: naughty postcards. Every seaside town worth its salt had shops full of them on display stands and we all (certainly boys!) spent as long as we could reading each one as fast as possible while evading the prying eyes of our parents. Daring not to get caught or laugh, they are memories that still amuse to this very day.

Mostly produced by Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth, for decades they were a British institution, much loved by the

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