Sepia-tinted real photo postcard of the Italian garden at Downhills Park, with two people posing. Ink: Dear E. June 9 - 1904. The lady in this photo is, or will be the wife of the man that executed it. This place was opened last year and although very pretty is not wonderfully so. I have been all over many and many a time while @ school. It was then private and possessed an exceedingly fine avenue of trees, in fact it was quite a feature of the once beatufiul neighbourhood of T[ottenham]. Percy (address in Dulwich supplied). Downhills Park was created from the site of a house called Downhills, which was bought for development by the British Land Company in 1881 but further bought by Tottenham Council in 1901, and opened as a municipal park in 1903; many of the original garden's features were retained, and many destroyed in the Second World War