The Sydbie Series
The Water Colour Post Card Co.
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Latimer's Elm, Hadley |
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The cards from this company start about 1905 and the address give is that of an agent. Most of the cards they produced were of the Sussex area, but the Sybie Series represent places round the London Perimeter, and include at least five from Hertfordshire. Most include a brief historical description of the scene. |
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The Water Colour Post Card Co.304 High Holborn, London, E.C |
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Series 50 |
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In "The Last of the Barons" Friar Bungay hanged his rival Adam Warner on this tree after the Battle of Barnet. The old Hermitage in which King Edward slept before the Battle, stood opposite the Oak, on the left of the picture. "The Last of the Barons" was a historical novel written by Lord Lytton [Bulwer Lytton] of Knebworth House, in 1843. |
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Hadley High Stone This Monument was erected in 1740 to commemorqate the Battle of Barnet, fought between King Edward IV and the Earlm of Warwick in 1471, the Earl was killed between the two trees on the right. |
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Windmill (Barnet Gate) Posted 1907 at Arkley
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Please tell me if you have any further information on this publisher's cards in Hertfordshire.
Page updated June 2008
