Saucy seaside postcards revived for new museum
A series of 21 comic seaside postcards, banned in their day by censors, are to go on display at the Saucy Seaside Postcard Museum on the Isle of Wight.
The titillation and double entendres on display were all dreamed up by one man, the fertile mind of Donald McGill who published a series of risqué classics from 1904.
McGill produced over 12,000 designs through to the 1960’s when the cheeky humour and the seaside resorts themselves fell out of fashion.
Now though they are undergoing something of a revival as a new generation appreciate some of the linguistic puns that McGill cooked up, including one young lady asking of a bookmaker: “I want to back the favourite please. My sweetheart gave me a pound to do it both ways!”