Coloured postcard of one of the bathing ponds on Hampstead Heath. Pencil: Dear Betty / I hear you will be going to West Cliff soon I expect you have been having a fine time, Hoping you are all well Love from Ada [address in Folkestone supplied]. Hampstead Heath was a manorial holding from mediaeval times; latterly, the manorial rights were held by the Maryon Wilson family until the 1940s. The Metropolitan Board of Works managed the Heath as a municipal park from the 19th century, succeeded by the Greater London Council and finally the City of London