Yorkshire Postcard: Scalby Enos Thompson Jack Of All Trades 1918 T2391

This historic subject captures a fascinating newspaper clipping alongside a portrait of Enos Thompson, the local sexton and joiner known as the Scalby Jack-of-all-trades. The text outlines his incredibly extensive list of village skills, including undertaker, painter, glazier, paperhanger, gasfitter, and clock repairer. The image provides an extraordinary social history record of multi-talented working-class community tradesmen in North Yorkshire during the early twentieth century.

This is a standard size postcard which was published by an unknown publisher. The postcard was made in the United Kingdom. This postcard was posted in 1918 to Mr J. Long, 3 Salford Avenue, Manchester Road, Hessle Road, Hull.


This postcard has a slight ripple effect to the top edge surface.