Sepia-tinted real photo postcard of Sexby Garden at Peckham Rye Park. Ink: Dear Fred, Just a card to wish you a safe journey. Hope the weather is fine for you Just washing your photos. They have not come out badly at all. I will not be in Sunday. Think of going to [?] Have got your powder & thermometer. What do you think of the War. Isn't it awful. Our German fellows have cleared out [???] it wd. be best for all concerned for them to go. You have no idea what the City has been like today Stock Exchange has been closed practically all day, at any rate since 12. There were hundreds of people outside the Bank of England waiting to draw money out. Traffic cd. hardly move at the Bk. I have never seen such a sight Wish you cd. have seen it. There were police at every turn. Our firm are members of the Of course it will mean no [???] about our holiday! Yrs, Ivy [address in Shanklin supplied]. Peckham Rye Park was originally a common, but in 1868 Camberwell Vestry purchased the site from the Lord of the Manor, and in 1882 it was transferred to the Board of Works. It was turned into a municipal park by Col. J.J. Sexby, and opened in 1894; various adjacent properties were added up to the Second World War. The Friends of Peckham Rye Park were founded in 1995, and the park restored with a Heritage Lottery Fund grant in 2004-5. Peckham Rye was one of the two sites where the former RHS bandstands were relocated on the closure of the RHS garden in Kensington, but the bandstand was destroyed during the War