Postcard of the Month: December 2023
/Christmas greetings from Pulborough
This view from the Arun shows one of the lime kilns on the left of the photograph. Several of these were situated on the north bank between the river and the backs of properties on Lower Street. A few, in ruins, are still extant but are much overgrown and largely inaccessible. Lime was one of the major cargoes transported by Arun barges and was an important commodity both for farming and industry.
The back of the card back shows Christmas greetings from Hamilton Law to Mr. & Mrs. D.H.J. Hartley. It was posted in Pulborough December 22nd 1907, and redirected from London to Birmingham. Hopefully it arrived in time!
Research reveals that Law and Hartley were contemporaries from 1898 at Clare College Cambridge which may be how they were acquainted.
Hamilton Law (1879 - 1960) declared himself on the census to be a musician, composer, teacher and critic.
David Harvey Johann Hartley (1879 -1955) was a Barrister at Law who had married Kathleen Laura Vyvyan Negus earlier in 1907.