AN EARLY BIRMINGHAM POSTCARD... 'MY HANDS ARE SO FULL...'

 My Hands Are So Full…

Height:

New Street at the turn of the 20th century…

Shop fronts attract

Window shoppers and promenaders 

Then rise three more floors,

As carriages pass on the horse road

And the woman in the foreground

Glares,

Contrite….

Rotund:

She peers through spectacles, uncomfortably…

Hampered by skirts wide,

Bonnet unbecoming, hairstyle severe,

Carrying a basket, bags, an umbrella,

As she loiters on the pavement

And the woman, a beadle’s wife perhaps,

Despairs,

Shunned…

Pete Ray 

Cynicus published this postcard, drawn by  CG Phillips which was postally used in 1904…