From a clifftop eyrie above the rust-red Devon cliffs, this real-photo postcard captures the beloved cove of Oddicombe Beach at Babbacombe in its postwar summer prime — rowing boats pulled up on the shingle, day-trippers packed along the narrow strand, the cliff railway station house perched at the foot of the switchback descent, and beyond it all a glittering Torbay stretching toward the horizon under a dramatic cloudscape. Posted on 28 July 1948, just three years after the war's end, the card carries the tang of an England rediscovering seaside pleasure after years of barbed wire and beach closures; the sender, whose message fills the correspondence half, wrote to someone at a London address about their holiday stay "at 74" — perhaps a boarding house — remarking on the weather and the pleasures of Torquay. The 2d orange George VI definitive franks the card neatly, a stamp already in its last years before the king's death in 1952.