To order a copy of Saucy Postcards:The Bamforth Collection by Marcus Hearn (Constable & Robinson) for £11.99 (+£1.35 p&p), call Telegraph Books on 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk ...

Maybe they're not to everyone's taste but if you can't laugh at Bamforth postcards what can you laugh at? They are classic images which have really stood the test of time" Credit: PA Mr Wallace ...

In the 1950s, postcards filled with buxom bosoms, hen-pecked husbands and double-entres by illustrators Bamforth and Co and Donald McGill were outlawed by local councils. Entrepreneur Ian Wallace ...

Bamforth produced its first set of postcards in 1910 in West Yorkshire Suggestive postcards featuring buxom women displaying their cleavage have been rejected as stamp designs by Royal Mail.

artwork by D. TempestKirklees Museums & Galleries have a collection of more than 1500 items (excluding postcards) linked to Bamforth and Company, one of the best known and loved publishers of ...

But the true advent of picture postcard humour came with companies such as Bamforth and their saucy seaside designs. By the end of the First World War, the firm – which was founded by James ...

One of the first companies to exploit this new market was Bamforth & Company Limited of Holmfirth, producing picture postcards from 1903, often using scenery sets from their photography work which had ...

Now anyone can buy them for 50p. Originally based at Holmfirth, the Bamforth collection ended up under the wing of former Scarborough rival postcard firm ETW Dennis. When the Dennis factory gates ...

Mr Wallace, 63, bought the firm Bamforth and Co nine years ago and now owns the rights to more than 50,000 of the postcard images with their kilt-wearing Scotsmen, bare-breasted sunbathers and un ...

Image courtesy of George Webber Dennis branched out to bawdy and saucy seaside postcards in the 1980s when it bought up the stock of West Yorkshire printers, Bamforth A building said to be the ...