A Novelty Postcard With a Link to Admiral Poindexter

            The Postcard

A novelty card deriving its joke from the longest place name in the UK.

The card was published by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons Ltd. of London and Scarborough. 

At the front of the card is a flap (you can just about see it), and if you lift it up, there is a concertina of small black and white photographs of Llanberis.

The card was posted in Caernarvon on Wednesday the 12th. August 1936. It was written in a child's hand, and was addressed to 'Auntie Annie' in Holbrook Way, Southborough, Kent. 

<The Longest Place Name in Europe

The village named on the railway sign is on the Island of Anglesea off north-west Wales.  

With 58 letters, the village has the longest place name in Europe, and one of the longest in the world.  Three quarters of the village speak Welsh fluently.

The name means: 'St. Mary's Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of St. Tysilio with a red cave'.

Admiral Poindexter

So what else happened on the day that the postcard was posted?  

Well, in Odon Indiana on the 12th. August 1936, a baby was born who later became Admiral John Marian Poindexter.

As well as being a U.S. naval officer, John Poindexder was a Department of Defense official.  He was National Security Advisor during the Reagan administration.

In April 1990 he was convicted of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran-Contra affair. 

These convictions were eventually reversed on appeal in 1991.

Taken on: April 21, 2010

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