Fairly simple but I can't read the handwriting on this old photo

[PrueM]

Think you might be right Leanne - thinking about the use of post as quick or almost-immediate communication in former days, it's unlikely that the message would give the year as the recipient would presumably be getting the note the day it was written, or within a day or two afterwards.

I have postcards written by my great-grandmother pre-WW1, written and posted from London in the morning, to let recipient know she would be arriving at their home that evening!  Obviously telephones were either not used much, or few and far between.

[Colin Cruddace]

I think it says 'Am sending this - day.... '

At first I thought the year was 15, but now I favour 18. Perhaps this was noted because of postal problems during the war.

[ROC]

Picture is definitely from the 1800s. I don't have the front scanned now but I can do it later in the week.

I think you are right about that being the time, that makes more sense.

'Sending' fits in this place too, as in he's sending the postcard.

The only reason he would have been in Queenstown is because he was sailing somewhere, so it's hard to say which word that is. http://www.findingmyirish.com/emigration-queenstown.htm

Thanks to you all for your help!

[carol8353]

I agree with Mary,and also cannot work out what the two words are,but I wonder if the date might be 25th Sept 15 (as in 1915)

I think the squiggle after the 25 is from the crossed out bit on the line above.

Oops I came in on page one and not two,but I still think it says as above!

Carol

[MaryA]

Now with other's suggestions I'm inclined to think 15^pm

[ROC]

Hmmm.. interesting.

They probably didn't use the 24 hour clock in casual speak back then, did they? And they probably wouldn't put 'pm' with the 24 hour clock.

My eyes are seeing every possibility written in it now! 

[MaryA]

And they probably wouldn't put 'pm' with the 24 hour clock.

Dohhh of course not

[Geoff-E]

As a sidetrack, I'm not sure when a.m. and p.m. began to be used.  Bradshaw's railway guide (1922) used mrn and aft.

[bulgaria71]

I thought the date was 1915 and it reads like someone joining a troop ship during World War 1.  Queenstown/Cobh was used as a port for both English and American warships.