June 13, 2025
Tag: gretna green
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“They ran off to Gretna Green to get married!”
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Impatient young (and not so young) lovers have known since 1754 that Gretna Green was the place to go for a quick wedding. All they had to do was outrun the irate parents to cross the small river bridge into Scotland. “Gretna Greens” in Aberdeen, Ohio and Elkton, Maryland followed in their footsteps.
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February 14, 2022 3 Comments
Jeff FitzGerald The Amazing Postcardsof Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Postcard History is pleased to reprint the following thumbnail sketch of Ida Rentoul. The content is drawn from the New South Wales (Australia) Facebook Group. In 1904 when Ida Rentoul was sixteen, she illustrated a series of postcards published in Melbourne, Australia. One was titled Son of […]