This postcard of the Monarch pleasure boat at Bournemouth carrying day trippers has the date July 22 1914 written on the front of the picture.
Nobody could envisage how their lives would change once the Great War started a month later, lasting four long years.
Do you have a nostalgia picture to share with us?
Email michaela.horsfield@bournemouthecho.co.uk
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