POSTCARDS -YPRES FRANCE WORLD WAR ONE

These postcards were collected by Mrs Denholm when she was a child living in Ypres. She was born there after the end of WWI. They were a souvenir and a reminder of the town and its links to World War One. As a child she remembers listening to the last post being played every night as she went to bed. Because of all of the stories about the war that people told her, she used to have nightmares about being shelled in the trenches as a child. Her father Leonard Knox built and ran the first cinema in the town after the end of the war.
The postcards represent the interest people had in the Western Front either out of curiosity of seeing what had happened or because family and friends had served and may be buried on the Western Front. The post cards also represent people and communities looking at ways to rebuild their communities and using tourism to draw in people and money to help achieve this.