Post Mark/Date

25 July 1904

Addressee

Miss Comer

High St

Eye.

Suffolk.

Photographer/Publisher

EXL Series


Posted Message

We shall be driving though Eye to-morrow if you ask us, we may stay the night. Is the mother home. J. W.

Comments

Caption: The Cliff and New Pier, Lowestoft

I love this card! Here we have a very well-off couple or a busload- we don't know- motoring from Lowestoft to Eye. Can you imagine the kind of car they would be driving in 1904? The roads were often unpaved and if the car broke down, getting someone to fix it was a problem, so they were a daring group.

And then they have the cheek to require Miss Comer to ask the group to stay, blithly assuming no one would mind being treated like a like minute motel. Then, in the next breath, the writer says not to count on them...if they feel like it, they might stay. In a mere 15 words, Miss Cromer should be offended at least 3 times.

Obviously, Miss Comer was well-known enough in Eye not to need a house name or number.

The Claremont Pier was built in 1903, which is why this card calls it "New". Notice the groynes being repaired in the foreground and how narrow the beach was back then.