The Clock Tower, Gravesend
The card is stamped: 8 pm
29 September 1916
Gravesend
Mrs Osborne
29 Shelley Avenue
East Ham
Essex
The transcribed text reads:
46 Parrock 1
September 30, 1916
My Dear Neile
I received your parcel this morning. Pleased to hear you are all safe after the fright last Sunday all is well at Gravesend Kate looks grand in the card
Good night from J Allen uncle
Additional information:
In 1918 end of war celebrations included civic ceremony at the Clock Tower, thanksgiving at St. George’s Church and the burning of an effigy of the Kaiser. The town was again illuminated.