The local magistrates’ destruction orders had no effect in other towns, so the same postcards were prosecuted again and again in different seaside resorts, year after year. Shopkeepers attempted to protect themselves with local censorship committees, to ban the worst cards. By 1954 censorship committees were operating in Blackpool, Hastings, Cleethorpes, and Brighton, with an official postcard censorship on the Isle of Man. But the destruction orders continued, and in 1956 some 22,558 cards were condemned.