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Best wishes for your birthday from
Manor Villa
7oaks
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This little postcard is splendid.  It gives us the address that the Farmers were living at in October 1906, and also the name of the house in the town of Sevenoaks in Kent where the Grays lived.  Alas, googling on "Manor Villa Sevenoaks" didn't give me anything helpful.  It's not surprising, but I couldn't help hoping.

Annie Gray Farmer was born in 1850, so this card would have sent for her 56th birthday.

It's not signed, but if it's Sevenoaks, then it must be the Grays, and the handwriting in the message looks like that of Jennie Gray - see:But the address is in different handwriting.  Whose?

About the caption of the picture - The Vine, Sevenoaks - Wikipedia says:
The Vine Cricket Ground, also known as Sevenoaks Vine, is one of the oldest cricket venues in England. It was given to the town of Sevenoaks in Kent in 1773 by John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745–1799) and owner of nearby Knole House. The land is thought to have possibly been used as a vineyard for the Archbishops of Canterbury.

Seven oak trees were planted on the northern edge of the ground in 1902 to mark the coronation of King Edward VII. Six were blown down in the Great Storm of 1987. In December 1987, seven new oaks were planted to replace those lost in the storm.

It doesn't look like a cricket ground to me, but then, I'm not sure I've ever seen a cricket ground or even a picture of a cricket ground, so it's unreasonable of me to expect it to look like a baseball field.  But I'm still doubtful.  Maybe it's the field to the right.

As for the Knole House that is mentioned in Wikipedia, we have a picture of it in a Christmas card that the Grays sent a couple of years later:It looks more like a castle than a house to me.
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