A charming piece of Edwardian seaside nostalgia, this pre-linen undivided-back card for the Devon village of Combe Martin pairs a crisp black-and-white photographic view of the parish church tower — framed by mature trees against a hazy hillside — with a full printed poem whose opening lines, "Just a straggling village street, a church and a tiny bay," perfectly capture the modest, unpretentious character of one of England's longest village streets stretching down to the Bristol Channel. Initialled "C.R." at the foot, the poem rhapsodises over the heathery moor, old Hangman hill, golden sands, strawberries and summer cricket — a time-capsule of late-Victorian resort marketing aimed at visitors arriving by the newly extended Lynton & Barnstaple Railway era, when small North Devon coves were being "discovered" by the middle classes. The card was never sent, retaining its clean, blank undivided reverse with the standard ½d stamp box of the pre-1902 / early Edwardian period, placing production almost certainly between 1900 and 1904.