HIGH VICTORIAN HEREFORD - "TUCK OILETTES"

The well known firm of Raphael Tuck & Sons changed the postcard trade in Britain forever (see their INTERESTING HISTORY HERE), and produced a number of views of High Victorian Hereford in their "Oilette" series:

Top to Bottom - the Cathedral; High Town looking
towards the Old House; and Castle Green, with
Nelson's Monument, looking towards the Cathedral

Top to Bottom - the Old House; the River Wye looking
towards the Victoria Bridge; the River Wye at Jordan's
Boathouse, looking towards the Old Bridge and Cathedral.

Notes:

(1). Downloading and enlarging the above pays dividends (for the true aficionado).

(2). The majority of these views are instantly recognisable even today, some 120 years later. The exception is the last card, the river view of the Old Bridge. This view (a favourite throughout Hereford's history) was tragically destroyed by the construction of the road bridge across the Wye in the mid 1970s.

A famous view destroyed - the 1970s Hereford road bridge,
with the Old Bridge and Cathedral partly obscured.

(3). For a heavily illustrated look at the Old House through time, see HERE.

(4). For a heavily illustrated look at the Victoria Bridge through time, see HERE