Coloured postcard of the Dell with spectators at the railings. Ink: Dear F. I will try & leave here by 2 oclock. I hope it will be fine we are all so tired of the rain All news then with love L. Amery [address in Finchley supplied]. Hyde Park was enclosed as a deer park by Henry VIII; Charles Bridgeman landscaped it in the 1720s. Rotten Row, allegedly a corruption of Route du Roi, was laid out for William III, then living at Kensington Palace