THESE kiss-me-quick quips from traditional saucy seaside postcards would no doubt prove too much of a handful for today’s snowflakes. We told yesterday how comic Colin Mills fears he will be ...

The biggest collection of First World War posrcards by prolific artist Donald McGill is going on display for the first time - on Monday, the anniversary of the start of the conflict. The artist is ...

To contemporary observers, the humour of saucy seaside postcards is almost as unfathomable as the desire to go on the type of donkey-riding, pier-promenading, rock-sucking, British seaside holiday ...

A footnote was written in the pages of English social history last week with the announcement that Bamforth’s of Holmfirth is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Bamforth’s was the last surviving ...

An original set of saucy seaside paintings which were turned into politically-incorrect postcards are expected to fetch thousands of pounds at auction. 11 August 2009 • 12:44pm Saucy seaside postcards ...

Saucy seaside postcards with their bawdy humour are seen as quintessentially British and they offer a colourful way to start exploring a fascinating investment. Postcards have been around in Britain ...

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David Cameron has revealed he is a fan of toilet humour - by putting his name to a saucy seaside postcard. The Prime Minister scrawled his signature on the cheeky card, bearing the slogan: “The only ...

IN 1914, the seaside post-card went to war. The outbreak of the Great War on August 4 was reflected - directly, and immediately- on the holiday beaches of Southend and Clacton. Literally overnight, ...