I was interested to see three cards on display in the HBDN series. I have a 4th that you could add to your record (attached). It is HBDN 2 in the series, titled “Hambledon Common”. This title is only partly correct as the hill in the background is the common; the area at the front of the picture is the village cricket pitch. I know this because my house is immediately next to the cricket pitch, which has been there since the late 19th century!
In addition, your annotation shows “Hambledon, Yorkshire” for all three pictures in your archive. This is incorrect. This Hambledon (there are several!) is in the county of Surrey, not Yorkshire. If anyone wants to look it up on Google maps, use the UK post code: GU8 4HF. (My daughter married in the church pictured in HBDN 8. This is the photograph that has a hand written annotation on the back which reads “W/Yorks”, which is where I believe the confusion arose.)
Hope this helps!
@Hambledon_Grandad Welcome to the forum!
I’d love to add your cards to the db, to help can you scan the back of this card, as I’m not sure if it’s a photograph or sepia.
Apologies Justin but I do not own the actual postcard. The village maintains a Historical Archive
http://www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk/?page_id=9379
and this this came from someone who contributes to the archive. It must have come from a card originally - but now we only have this scan.
P.S. Please make sure the “Hambledon, Yorkshire” gets changed to “Hambledon, Surrey” on the other three HBDN entries. This is like having a postcard of the Empire State Building marked “Empire State, California”!
@Hambledon_Grandad Great, I think that card is a sepia, I added it here:
Excellent, thank you BUT please could you change the metadata for all four “HBDN” postcards. They are in “Hambledon, Surrey”, not “Hambledon, Yorkshire” as shown on their records. The two counties (our equivalent of states in the US) are hundreds of miles apart! (See map!)
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Hambledon now relocated to Surrey.
Thanks for the new card image and for giving us the correct County for the cards.
Steve
