A Postcard from Ardentinny

August 28, 2011August 28, 2011

Ardentinny Post Office 1920

Matthew Gardener was born in 1854. He became the village grocer in 1891 and postmaster in 1901. This is one of several postcards he published around 1920. Image courtesy Janet Gardner Roy. More on the Gardeners. A postcard from Ardentinny. More historical images.

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February 27, 2011February 27, 2011

Ardentinny 1910

Little has changed of this view of Rock Cottage, Post Office and Ardentinny Hotel taken some 101 years ago. The postcard published by Mathew Gardner, Ardentinny (who ran the village post office) was posted to an address in Edinburgh on October 10, 1911.

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January 26, 2011August 29, 2019

Ardentinny 1909

This postcard published by M. Gardner of Ardentinny Post Office was mailed by a holidaymaker to a Kilmacolm address on 23 September, 1909. The Old School can be seen on left of picture. Can anyone name the donkey?

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