This is an index to a long series of illustrated Facebook posts I made in 2024-5, giving brief historical details about Cumbrian postcard publishers, arranged in rough anticlockwise geographical order.


Keswick / Egremont / Kendal war memorials (the post which prompted the series)
Kendal J. Simcoe (Levens Hall topiary colour-tinted cards)
Kendal J. Simcoe (J.S. K.; Simcoe & Son) (general information)
Kendal Atkinson & Pollitt
Bowness-on-Windermere Brunskill & Son
Bowness-on-Windermere Herbert & Sons
Bowness / Windermere J.H. Crabtree; J. Atkinson; Mallinson; B. Sanderson
Troutbeck / Eskdale Miss G. Castree / Miss M. Fair
Ambleside  Sanderson & Dixon
Ambleside (/ Bowness) T. Bell (/ Brunskill added info)
Ambleside / Coniston Walmsley Bros.; A. Hickling / Fenwick Pattison
Patterdale J. Lowe (general summary)
Patterdale J. Lowe (link to gallery in the Patterdale Past website)
Penrith G. Reed (Reed's Pictorial Postcards; Penrith Beacon Series)
Penrith Reed's (collaborations with national firms)
Penrith J.L. Topaz; W. Jordison
Appleby J. Whitehead & Son
Alston Drug Company; T.W. Tatters; T.R. Walton; G.W. Lee
Brampton (/ Tynemouth) I.B. Hodgson; Harding & Irving; R. Howe (/ M. Auty)
Carlisle Nicholson & Cartner (inc. Lochinvar) part 1
Carlisle Nicholson & Cartner (inc. Lochinvar) part 2
Carlisle Thurnams' (monochrome & tinted cards 1902-5)
Carlisle Thurnams' (monochrome series 1903-); Tassell & Son
Carlisle Beatys' (inc.. Northern Series, + BACKS)
Carlisle Haytons' (inc. Success Series)
Silloth Martins'
Silloth J. Armstrong; J. Wood; Pattinson & Proctor
Allonby / Wigton / Aspatria P. Foster / J. Wilkinson; T. McMechan / J. Askew; A. Lithgow
Keswick Pettitts' (cabinet cards & cartes-de-visite, late-Victorian)
Keswick Pettitts' (printed cards, c1906-)
Keswick Pettitts' (numbered real-photo cards, c1906-)
Keswick Pettitts' (bespoke cards inc. Keswick Convention)
Keswick & Workington H. Slade Wilson
Keswick Maysons' (cabinet cards & cartes-de-visite, late-Victorian)
Keswick Maysons' (early printed cards, c1903-8)
Keswick Maysons' (Numbered real-photo cards, c1909- + BACKS pre-1914)
Keswick Maysons' (1918-)
Keswick Maysons' (camera vs production negatives, + BACKS 1918-)
Keswick J. Clark
Keswick R. Henderson; G. Watson; P.M. Hope
Keswick Haworths' (numbered real-photo postcards, c1928-39)
Keswick Haworths' (unnumbered postcards)
Keswick Abrahams' (portraits, cabinet cards, CDVs, late-Victorian)
Keswick Abrahams' (souvenir photos & lantern slides, late-Victorian)
Keswick Abrahams' (monochrome printed cards, numbered, c1904-10)
Keswick Abrahams' (tinted printed cards, numbered, c1905-10)
Keswick Abrahams' (non-Lakeland printed cards, c1906-13)
Keswick Abrahams' (printed cards experiments, c1906-13 + BACKS)
Keswick Abrahams' (sepia printed cards, numbered, c1908-13)
Keswick Abrahams' (moonlight art cards, c1908)
Keswick Abrahams' (real photo cards, numbered, 1911-14)
Keswick Abrahams' / ?? (humorous cards 1908-9 / 1920s)
Grasmere, St. Bees J. Green (photos acquired by Abraham of Keswick)
Keswick Abrahams'? (printed cards with italic titles, 1910)
Keswick Abrahams' (monochrome printed cards, 1920-22)
Keswick Abrahams' (colour tinted cards, 1921-26)
Workington & Scotland! Bramwell & Ferguson (early years, Workington & Leven)
Scotland! Bramwell & Ferguson (later years in Edinburgh)
Keswick Abrahams' (photo album books)
Keswick Abrahams' (styles of photogravure cards, 1918-)
Keswick Abrahams' (range of photogravure cards, 1918-)
Keswick Abrahams' (numbered real-photo sequence, 1918-)
Keswick Abrahams' (numbered real-photo sets)
Keswick Abrahams' (bespoke real-photo cards + map)
Keswick Abrahams' (bespoke real-photo cards)
Keswick Abrahams' (multi-view cards inc. labelled panoramas)
Keswick Abrahams' (colour cards, 1927-1930s)
Keswick Abrahams' (1945-)
Keswick (& Leeds) Chadwick Studio- Webster- Gomis
Cockermouth Brash Bros.; Huddarts'
Maryport / Seaton J. Adair; R. Adair / R. Osborne
Workington C. Bramwell (see also Slade, Keswick); J.R. Taylor (Derwent)
Workington W.C. Lawrie (see also Harrington); P.E. Debenham
(Workington / Whitehaven) (Valentine of Dundee; W.H. Smith- Kingsway)
Harrington / Moresby (W.C. Lawrie); J. Todd / A. Robinson
Harrington A.E. Deans
Whitehaven J. Dickinson; R. Burlington (Excelsior)
Whitehaven R & N (Reynolds & Naile; beginnings)
Whitehaven R & N (Reynolds & Naile; Photo-ette etc., 1905-)
Whitehaven T. Horsley (Bransty); Whitehaven Brick Co.
Whitehaven Moss (early printed cards, 1903-)
Whitehaven Moss (borderless tinted cards, 1905-)
Whitehaven Moss (real-photo cards, 1912-24)
Whitehaven Moss (post-1918)
interlude Wrench of London
Frizington (/ Arlecdon) J. Telford, H.L. Cook, (/ anon)
Cleator Moor J. Bewley, J.W. Illingworth (see also Millom)
Cleator Moor G.H. Milfull
Cleator Moor mystery publishers
St. Bees W. Whalley, R.W. Broomfield, H. Graham
Egremont J. Graham, J. Devlin, W.J. Meckin (aka Mechin)
Seascale Wrigley family, A. Dean, J. Soar,
Gosforth A. Jackson, + the Broughton-to-Beckermet mystery
Holmrook / Netherwasdale J. Duff / H. Windsor
Eskdale Miss M. Fair, J.D. Porter, E.E. Bunting (Ravenglass), J.B.
Irton / Eskdale (W.E. Ball of Kent) / Outward Bound, (W.J. Bassett-Lowke)
Eskdale Eskdale Railway
Eskdale mysteries inc. McWilliam, A. Hancock
Waberthwaite / Silecroft Woodall / Tyson (+ Real Photo Series teaser)
Millom & Cleator Moor Illingworth (1905-6 Millom beginnings)
Millom & Cleator Moor Illingworth (style experiments inc. Real Photo Series)
Millom & Cleator Moor Illingworth (1914 to 1920s)
Millom Illingworth oddities
Millom L.L., F. Thompson, H.J., T. Horsley
Hallthwaites / Ulpha H. Moore / S.A. Trenouth
Torver / Coniston + ??? Souvenir Series (???) / A.E. Howe / M. & H. Southwood
Broughton in Furness G. Smith, J. Robson
Kirkby to Dalton in Furness R. Todd (Broughton) / T. Barr / M. Cook (Askam) / Hargreaves
Barrow-in-Furness W. Pears, E. Bland, Davis & Sons
Barrow-in-Furness SY. B. (i.e. early Sankey)
Barrow-in-Furness Sankeys' (sea cruise souvenirs)
Barrow-in-Furness Sankeys' (general, inc. date & location codes)
Barrow-in-Furness Sankeys' (special events)
Swarthmoor / Conishead Swarthmoor Hall & Conishead Priory souvenirs
Ulverston E. & L. Gelderd, W. Holmes
Ulverston J. Atkinson (general + printed credits)
Ulverston J. Atkinson (real-photo quality problems)
Haverthwaite / Satterthwaite J. Croasdell, Wood's Series / B. Coward
Cartmel / Cark N.U. Series, M.E. Wilson / Hindle, Robinson
Grange-over-Sands H.T. Mason (to J. Wadsworth)
Grange-over-Sands G. Wilson
Grange-over-Sands J. Wadsworth (inc. Buckley art), the Slingsby sisters
Grange / Milnthorpe Wolstenholme, Butler, Wadsworth / J.C. Lord, J.W. Proctor
Milnthorpe J. Mashiter
Arnside F. Crosland (early)
Arnside F. Crosland (late, including Lancaster publications)
Arnside Wilson / Lilyland (to 1910, inc. some Crosland)
Arnside Wilson / Lilyland (1910-1918)
Arnside Wilson / Lilyland (post-1918)
Burton (+ Beetham) Sutcliffes, B. Corless, W.W. Rowbotham (+ the Hiltons)
Kirkby Lonsdale (/ Skipton) Willan's; Frances M. Tanner (/ Stationery Company)
Sedbergh M. Turner, J. Greenbank, Jackson & Son
Dent Mason, Dinsdale, Martha Harper