Showing posts with label ice house. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

An 18th Century Mausoleum at Watford carries a hidden message



Post Cards

The postman can easily see what you have written on a postcard, and lovers often found ways of coding a message. Some wrote in shorthand, while others used special codes. The sender of this card, showing an interesting mausoleum which doubled as an ice house, uses a very simple device to obscure the quite innocent message it carried.

Watford
For more information on the card see
and for more on how messages were concealed see Hidden Messages