Description:An early tinted postcard picture of Holy Trinity Church, Baswich and graveyard, looking south.
Below the picture is a reference to an inscription on a headstone in the churchyard dated 1771:
"The worlds' a city full of crowded streets,
Death is the market place where all must meet,
If life were merchandise that men could buy,
The rich alone would live, the poor would die".
The verse and similar variations can be found on other memorials around this date and appears to be a composite from multiple sources, such as the broadsheet ballad 'Death and the Lady,' Henry Wootton's 'Remaines', and ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen' by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. The inscription was to be on a double-tomb on the south-side of Baswich church to Francis and William Clegg.
Postcard published by F. Dawson of 10, Bridge Street, Stafford and posted from Stafford in July 1907. Its reverse states that the split-back card can be used for Inland correspondence and for the chief Foreign Countries except Greece, Japan, Servia, Turkey and the United States. By October of that year postcards became valid for posting internationally.