PECULIAR POSTCARDS

JAN BONDESON shares another deltiological discovery from his prodigious collection of postcards. This month’s pictorial blast from the past remembers the life and death of Job Senior, a hirsute Yorkshire hermit with a love for the bottle 30. THE HERMIT OF ROMBOLD’S MOOR Job Senior was born in 1780 or thereabouts, the illegitimate son of Ann Senior, of Beckfoot, near Ilkley inYorkshire. His father, whose name was Hawksworth, left some money to Job and his brother John, but they soon spent it. A strong, muscular young man, Job became an agricultural labourer at various farms near Ilkley. He fell in love with a young woman who resided near Whitkirk, but she jilted him after giving birth to what was presumed to be his child, and pursuing him through the parish…

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