A postcard that was published by Louis Lévy that was posted in Stoke Newington using a halfpenny stamp on Monday the 10th. September 1906. It was sent to:
Mrs. A. Murchett, 9, Queen Anne's Gardens, Bush Hill Park, Nr. Enfield.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"September 9th. 1906. Glad to say I am feeling much better than when you were here. I quite forgot to give you my little gift. Love to both, Clara."
Kew Gardens
The adult fee for admission to Kew Gardens used to be one pre-decimalisation penny. It now costs £15.50. As there were 240 old pennies to the £, it is now 3,720 times more expensive to get in than it used to be. How's that for inflation?
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world.
Founded in 1840 from the exotic garden at Kew Park in Middlesex, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the Herbarium, which is one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens.
The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions, and is a World Heritage Site.
The Kew site, which has been dated as formally starting in 1759, though it can be traced back to the exotic garden at Kew Park, formed by Henry, Lord Capell of Tewkesbury, consists of 132 hectares (330 acres) of gardens and botanical glasshouses, four Grade I listed buildings, and 36 Grade II listed structures, all set in an internationally significant landscape. It is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Kew Gardens has its own police force, Kew Constabulary, which has been in operation since 1847.
Alfonso Ponce de León
So what else happened on the day that Clara posted the card?
Well, the 10th. September 1906 marked the birth in Málaga, Spain of Alfonso Ponce de León.
Alfonso Ponce de León y Cabello was a Spanish painter and propagandist. He was the son of jurist Juan Ponce de León y Encina.
He attended Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Alfonso was associated with Federico García Lorca's theater group, La Barraca as a scene painter. He married fellow painter Margarita Manso.
Alfonso was a member of Falange Española de las JONS (helming the organization's propaganda apparatus) since 1935.
He was arrested and executed in Madrid by Republican paramilitaries on the 29th. September 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. He was aged 30 when he died in front of a firing squad.
In 2001 the Reina Sofía curated a retrospective exhibition of his work.
His most famous work, Autorretrato (accidente) is housed in the Reina Sofia's permanent collection.
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