Bathed in the soft hand-tinted hues of an Edwardian summer, the ancient stone walkway of Chester's city walls leads the eye inexorably toward King Charles' Tower — the medieval drum tower from whose parapet King Charles I reportedly watched his Royalist army defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor in September 1645, a moment that effectively sealed the fate of the English Civil War. Chester's famous two-mile circuit of Roman and medieval walls is among the most complete in Britain, and this charming early divided-back card — with its distinctive British Post Office regulation text permitting message and address to share the reverse — captures the tower in its Edwardian restoration glory, flanked by lush hedgerows and with a solitary figure barely visible beneath the archway, lending a pleasing human scale to history. The lightly tinted photographic process, typical of British publishers of the 1902–1910 period, gives the scene a dreamy, timeless quality.