A new version of the site, with an updated, modern design is now available at fgostuart.com! The old design will be retired and fgo-stuart..co.uk and other registered domains will be updated to point at the new site.
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Today I have updated the downloadable checklist to revision 3. This latest version contains nearly 50 amendments to the first version that was released in 2018.
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The site has supported map locations since day one, but nothing beats looking at a postcard's location from the same spot today. A recent enhancement to the site allows this, showing the approximate view point on a Google Street View. Finding the correct view requires manually checking unfortunately, so adding the views to all the cards is likely to be a long process.
Some cards have the view added already, and for these cards the map can be switched between the top-down map view and the Street View by toggling the buttons above the map.
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The printing on the rear of this card this card advertises Westbourne House hotel on Millbrook Road. Those familiar with the Millbrook area today will not recognise the description on the card. The original card has an arrow drawn on the horizon, presumably pointing to the location of the hotel!
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This interesting advert has been printed on the rear of this card, a good example of Stuart's cards being used for commercial purposes. The voyage to Calcutta advertised takes place on the ship that is the subject of the postcard.
Stuart released many versions of the same card with different numbers (indeed, sometimes mis-numbering different cards with the same number). Now you can see all the cards having the same number on one page.
For example card 872.
This page can be accessed by clicking the link on the card number from the main card page, for example here.
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It seems likely that the 868 mis-number is not a mis-number at all, but that 868 was in fact Stuart's telephone number. There are one or two points in favour of this theory.
Unfortunately I have been unable to prove this to be the case one way or the other. Southampton Library has a collection of telephone directories, but they do not seem to go back quite far enough and none list Stuart.
Thanks to Edward for the updated information.
Some examples of 868 can be found here.
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I recently came across this card, published by Gregory & Co. It seems that Gregory & Co published a series of cards, of military subjects, all featuring Stuart photos as used by Stuart on his own early military cards.
I have seen several of these cards and would be very interested to see any others that people may be aware of, or of any other information about Gregory & Co.
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