Description:This bungalow on the A34 between Tittensor and Darlaston, near Stone was built in the 1920s and from at least 1928 was the home of the Campbell family, who named it after their home village, Dalserf, in Lanarkshire. Donald Campbell opened Darlaston Cafe and Filling Station in 1929, taking advantage of the boom in road traffic on this important route between the Midlands and the north west.
Tragedy struck the family in 1931 when Donald’s son Thomas Thomson Campbell was killed in a road accident close to the cafe on 10 January. He was 31. By a strange coincidence Donald died on the same date in 1939, he was aged 69. The cafe was later known as Silver Birches Cafe, and both the cafe building and bungalow are now (2022) part of the R M Commercials site.
This postcard was sent from an address in Alma Street, Stone to Yarnfield, franked 20 August 1936.