A RARE postcard showing many of the Cumbrian groups campaigning to get votes for women will feature in a Berkshire auction next week.

The card was posted in 1911 and a poster carried by the protestors for women’s suffrage refers to a meeting at the Queen’s Hall.

It is being sold in the January 18 to 19 sale by Loddon Auctions, of Aborfield and the pre-sale estimate is £70 to £100.

Among the placards on show are those from Women’s Suffrage Society branches in Ambleside, Kendal, Keswick, Penrith, Cockermouth and Maryport.

The same sale has four vintage beer bottle labels from Hartley’s “Old Brewery” in Ulverston.

Labels for oatmeal stout, strong ale, mild ale and India pale ale are expected to make £20 to £40 each.

A January 20 sale by Lawrences Auctioneers, of Crewkerne, Somerset, has a painting called Cornfield near Coniston.

It is signed and dated 1910 and should sell for £150 to £200.

The artist is William Hartley Waddington, who lived from 1881 to 1961.

The February 8 to 10 sale by Keys Fine Art Auctioneers, of Aylsham, Norwich, includes a coloured etching and aquatint called Coniston by John Reginald Brunsdon which is expected to sell for £60 to £80 .

The same sale has a watercolour by Claude Muncaster called Near Oxen Park in the Furness District which should sell for £100 to £150.

The January 25 sale by Forum Auctions of London (Lot 175) expects £600 to £800 for a soldier’s diary with links to Lake District poet William Wordsworth.

It is the work of Edward Stanley Curwen, who was brother-in-law to John Wordsworth, the poet’s eldest son.

Lt Curwen served with the 14 th Light Dragoon Guards and lived at Workington Hall, Cumberland.

The soldier lived from 1810 to 1875 and wrote about stays on Belle Isle, the largest and only inhabited island on Windermere.

The island was the property of the Isabella Curwen who married John Wordsworth.

He also mentions catastrophic flooding of his family’s Cumberland mines in 1837 when 27 men and boys were killed.