Ramsgate, UK

Postmarked Ramsgate, dated 15 August 1904.
Raphael Tuck & Sons "Oilette" Postcard 1482 Ramsgate.

Postmarked Ramsgate, dated 23 May 1904.

The waterfall and bridge have recently been restored because it had become very overgrown with vegetation.  It looks very much the same, though the bridge parapet is now stone rather than the rickety-looking wood in the postcards.

I noticed the writing on the front of the second card.  I've often wondered why people would spoil the picture like this, something they very often did.  When I turned the card over I saw the reason why.  There is a message printed above the area for a written message:

FOR INLAND POSTAGE THIS SPACE, AS 

WELL AS THE BACK, MAY NOW BE 

USED FOR COMMUNICATION. 

FOR FOREIGN POSTAGE THE BACK ONLY

(Post Office Regulation).

So, there's something new for me.  In case anyone else is interested in trivia such as this, an excerpt from A Manx Notebook:

"...it was the Penny Post Jubilee exhibition in 1890 when special cards were printed that saw changes to the British postal regulations. These regulations were in force by September 1894 but were sufficiently unclear to prevent widespread adoption until amended on 1st November 1899 - which date can be said to be the effective start of the British pictorial postcard and explains the scarcity of true Victorian cards. Postal regulations were strict that only the address could be on one face thus the views tended to be vignettes (oval shaped) or sized so that a margin was left below it for a short note.