Did you used to write letters when you were 'courting'?

[GazM]

They're from a time when the letters had SWALK on the back of the envelope, or sometimes BURMA or NORWICH.

Ah yes, scented envelopes kissed with cherry red lipstick and the cryptic abbreviation. I got a HOLLAND once. Didn't last.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Yeah, I often got out the quill 'n parchment for a little 'billet-doux!

 

[Stoned Rose]

I did but I was away at sea from the age of 17. We lived for those letters from home from family, friends and the latest girlfriend you'd met while on leave. The days before the internet and mobile phones it was our only contact with home, often for months. The scented ones were the best.

Front? Or back?

 

[chedlee]

We still have all our letters we wrote to each other up in the loft, to leave to our kids.

Same with stuff like all the train tickets I used to keep going to and from Bolton to see the missus when we were teenagers.

Silly, I know, but hope they keep the letters!

I was in Stockport and my wife lived in Solihull when we first started courting, we wrote to each other every week and alternated visits at the weekend. We also didn't have a phone so I had to nip round to the one by the Hollywood to ring. Still got all the letters in the loft as well but haven't read them since. Hopefully the kids will at least read a couple before they bin them off.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

I've just watched an episode of the crown were Princess Margaret and Peter Townshend wrote letters during their romance. I'm relatively young but during the late eighties and early nineties in my teens when I was discovering girls and dating I used to always write, and receive letters from the girls I was seeing. They were a mix of soppy teenage pap, highly sexual imaginations of things we were going to do to each other and heartfelt confessions of undying love.

This was before the Internet and everything it entails and was a remedy to not it being able to say the words face to face. I suspect the kids don't write letters anymore but surely I wasn't the only one who did this.

A far more romantic age.
Much better than dick pics which seem to be the modern equivalent.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

I am a FOC and I used to write every day after meeting Mrs Q, I was in the Army at the time in Germany. After we were married, and I went to Oman for nearly two years I started again, every day. I dated every letter I received and kept them. It was only recently (35 years later) that Mrs Q insisted I binned them. Those were the days long before any of this electronic malarkey.

Incidentally, I met Mrs Q New Years Eve 1971, married 1973 and went to Oman 1984.

 

[kaz7]

The first mr k was a soppy twat but i loved it ,he used to write a lot when he was at sea and send me those love is.. cards
and a telegram from the falklands

I kept them in a box with other sentimental things and when i moved with the second mr k he convienetly lost it , hmmm, jealous much

 

[paulchapo]

I was in Stockport and my wife lived in Solihull when we first started courting, we wrote to each other every week and alternated visits at the weekend. We also didn't have a phone so I had to nip round to the one by the Hollywood to ring. Still got all the letters in the loft as well but haven't read them since. Hopefully the kids will at least read a couple before they bin them off.

I loved the fact that when Tom Jones became rich and famous he bought the telephone box he used to call his wife from in Pontypridd and shipped it out to the States.

 

[mancityvstoke]

S W A L K

n o r w i c h

 

[Bluesince1979]

In approx 92 i was seeing a girl who went off travelling round greece for 2 months. She asked me to right a weekly letter to her, like a diary and send them to her home address so when she gets home she can read them in numbered order.

Anyway about a week before she was home i got with someone id always liked so jumped ship. The last letter was me finishing with her.
Still feel bad about that