Bamforth postcard images have been popular since the early 1900s and, as icons of holiday humour, have never been equalled. Silly, saucy, irreverent and certainly never PC, they represent a particular sense of humour at the expense of skinny men, drunks, bottoms and boobs amongst others. Always tottering on the brink of good taste and sometimes falling over it, they are the visual equivalent of the pub joke. Colour throughout
