Coloured postcard showing a view of the lake and bridge in Pittville Park, Cheltenham. Ink: [personal message] [address in Nuneaton supplied]. Pittville [misspelled on the card] is a suburb of Cheltenham, planned as a residential development by Joseph Pitt and begun in 1825; the supervising architect was John Forbes, and in addition to domestic buildings and the Pittville Pump Room (1830), it contained Pittville Park, largely made in 1827 for the benefit of residents, and opened as a public park in 1894