Princess Arthur of Connaught was not, of course, born with the name Arthur! In her case it is a convoluted story, but the convention is that a wife derives her title from her husband. A more recent example of this is Princess Michael of Kent. Royal Princes are usually given a Dukedom on marriage so that their wives can be styled Duchess of wherever, otherwise you would have had Princess Charles, Princess Andrew and Princess Edward for the late Queen's son's spouses (although as Charles was Prince of Wales, his wife became Princess of Wales). The same principal applies to knighthoods, so when Joe Bloggs is knighted his wife Gladys becomes Lady Bloggs, but certainly not Lady Gladys, for which title she would have had to have been the daughter of an Earl or Duke (as with Lady Diana Spencer).
Or presumably if she was 'Ladied' in her own right.
Mr family used "Master" when addressing my birthday/Christmas cards until I was 12 at least. My parents used to always put my card in the post even though we stayed in the same house as they thought it was nicer than just handing it. (Stamps were something like 25p for first class and 18p for second at the time, so much cheaper than now even when adjusting for inflation). In 1995 on my 12th birthday my card from my parents sent in Trinity (a northern suburb of Edinburgh) went missing and so did my card sent by my aunt and uncle in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian. The distance between the two places where the cards were posted is about 7 miles as the crow flies or about 11 miles by road. My family suspects that a rogue sorting office worker/postie noticed handwritten envelopes addressed to a "Master" and guessed there was a child's birthday and opened the envelopes to steal any money inside.
Nope. No such thing. The title is acquired by accident of birth. There is, of course, a Damehood (female equivalent of a knighthood, but their husband does not get to be a Sir) and women who are awarded life peerages are Lady (actually more correctly Baroness) followed by the title they have chosen (which is usually their surname), but only the daughters of Dukes and Earls are entitled to be styled Lady followed by their first name.
My father worked a Booth Brothers woollen mill in Yorkshire and the two brothers who owned the mill were always addressed by the employees as Mr Gordon and Mr James.
When I left school and began my apprenticeship at the English Electric Co. even the workshop foremen were known by 'Mr...'
From about '65 to '69 I had a Midland Bank 'Personal Account' where the cost per cheque was 6d and they were supplied in a book of 10. Then I switched over to a normal 2d per cheque account.
We're in danger of going down a banking rabbit warren here with transfer to another thread! Dunno what they were 'selling' but the price of a standard bank cheque was for the 2d stamp duty that went to the government. If you closed your account you'd return the cheque book and get your money back on unused cheques - indirectly from HMG.
Decimalisation, February 1971
The 'Personal Account' that I had was for very low usage, (hence the higher cheque charge but no other costs). Instead of the blue cheques (later to become yellow), the personal cheques were green and came in books of 10.
Until 1971 all cheques attracted 2d duty. Midland may have charged extra, but that 2d had to go to HMG.
We had one room for "registration" at the beginning of the day and then moved around the school as required for each different class; teachers were generally fixed in one room. It probably wasn't the most efficient way of doing things, but it was interesting to see how different teachers customised their classrooms in what was a fairly nondescript 60s brutalist building. Our modern studies teacher had a drawing on the back room of the class that depicted the US on one side and the USSR on the other, along with cartoon heads of the leaders of the day; in the middle was a big hole where the UK was supposed to be and the captions from both leaders said "oops".
Obviously we still have postcards of the holiday type, but blank ones to send a message to someone were once a thing (as in "answers on a post card please"). Can you still get them?
Good question. Amazon seem to sell them. I bet places like Rymans stock them. I recently noticed a part used packet of them in the place I keep stationery items, probably been there for years and used very rarely these days! Probably best used up for shopping lists or something like that. I also had a small pad of airmail weight writing paper and airmail weight envelopes (don't think any airletters however - for the light weight item folded up and was both the envelope and the thing to write on - possibly postage pre paid to save even the weight of the stamp).
It was similar for me in the 60s. We didn't stay in the same groups for each lesson after the third form (year 9 in new money). This meant a reshuffle of the whole school between each lesson, all planned by the head of maths using pencil and paper. He once replanned the entire timetable to allow one boy to take a particularly unusual combination of A level aubjects.
Would make a good roster clerk!
Or train planner.
It will be easy to determine how old postcards are as they have an outline the size of a definitive stamp. The current ones with the scannable code on them would need a larger box.
Good point! well I certainly know mine have been in my possession since well before Royal Mail started scannable stamps. Just a question of whether that is several years or more than a decade.
The later probably
There was a time, probably 20 years ago, when sending in postcards was the normal way to enter competitions. I stopped doing them when all the answers could be got from a Google search but I still have a goodly collectìon of blank assorted postcards.Good point! well I certainly know mine have been in my possession since well before Royal Mail started scannable stamps. Just a question of whether that is several years or more than a decade.
Yes, I have won a considerable number of assorted prizes from various local newspapers over the years by this method. As I lived just around the corner from the Luton Herald & Post, I would put my entry directly through their door thereby avoiding the use of a stamp. One prize that I won from them was a hefty hardback book which they sent to me by Royal Mail at a cost of nearly a fiver, if I remember rightly.
Memories, memories! Winning New Year in Tromso for 2 as part of a publicity campaign for a new air route from Newcastle to Stavanger and Bergen. Faced with a lack of enthusiasm from my better half our student offspring said they'd go if we didn't. We went. It was a wonderful experience. We've been back in daylight!
I was thinking of cards liberated from attics in years to come.Good point! well I certainly know mine have been in my possession since well before Royal Mail started scannable stamps. Just a question of whether that is several years or more than a decade.
Some may have hung on for a little longer but I suspect most were gone before the turn of the milennium. It occurred to me a couple of years ago when looking at old phots from the 80s (which did feature them in the background) that even though I passed my driving test in 1992 and have been a car owner since 1999, I've never used one of those old style meters.
