Postcard c1902 Tillingbourne Stream Surrey England Early Undivided Back

A mossy cascade tumbles through a dark Surrey woodland in this atmospheric early black-and-white photographic postcard of the Tillingbourne — the gentle chalk-stream that winds through Albury, Shere, and Gomshall, beloved by Victorian walkers and naturalists alike. Printed with card number 1107, this is an undivided-back card from the very earliest years of the picture-postcard era in Britain, when the reverse was reserved entirely for the address and no message was permitted on the image side. Clean and unused, the card is a quiet, unselfconscious portrait of rural Surrey before the motor car changed it forever.