Amberley and Houghton Prize Band.

This post card posted in 1906 is a photograph taken by Wheeler, a Horsham based photographer. His studio was at 4 North Street in the town so was this photograph taken from the first floor? Horsham has over the past 110 years and the buildings have been replaced. 

Late in his life, John noted down some of his memories and this image reinforces his comments about fashion. 

"Fashions have changed out of all recognition, no one would dream of going out without a hat, man or woman and a woman would never even show an ankle. In fact, dresses were so long that they used to drag along the ground sweeping up the dust."

I have not yet discovered who sent this card, but think that it was one of John's Horsham relatives.

August 31st, 1906 was a Friday. Roald Amundsen reaches Alaska in his vessel Gjoa; the first ship to sail the North West Passage on that day.