Wind-bent pines lean dramatically over a chalk-white cliff-top path between Walton-on-Naze and Frinton-on-Sea in this atmospheric Edwardian snapshot — two figures in long Edwardian dress stroll the dusty track past a milestone, the wide Essex sky piled with clouds behind them. This stretch of North Essex coast, beloved by Victorian day-trippers arriving by the new railway, was rapidly being developed as a genteel resort in the early 1900s; the rustic simplicity captured here would vanish within a generation. Produced by S. & S. C. and processed in Prussia, this undivided-back card with its embossed white border is a fine example of the high-quality German-processed cards that dominated the British market before World War I cut off supplies.