This card was posted in Arundel in July 1907 to Miss B. Lee, The Vicarage, Bury, Pulborough. The text is "Dear B....... with Love G.L.G.".

I have a series of postcards to Bertha Lee spanning the early 1900s. Most of these are scenes in Bury or other sites in Sussex. In this case she may have known some of the band members, who would have performed at local events.

Research into the subject revealed many examples of local brass bands at this time. Specifically the West Sussex County Council Great War Project yielded an Amberley band member John (Jack) Philby, whose entry included a number of pictures of him and other band members (Ralph and Reginald Henry Jackson) who joined up and were sadly casualties. One of the pictures is of the band but in a different year from mine (1909?), and Jack is identifiable in both examples. Other band members are believed to be Charlie Hammond, Bob, Jack and Fred Philby, Dave and Harry Dinnage, Harry Smith and Harry West.

The bandmaster is named in a press report as David Dinnage snr. and he is seated in the centre of this postcard, holding a baton. John (Jack) Philby is front, bottom left. The bandmaster's son, also David, is known as a publisher of several early postcards of the area, including some of Bury. Another copy of this picture, described in the WSCC Records, is titled Amberley Prize Band 1907 followed by "D.D.", suggesting that the photographer was probably David Dinnage junior.