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| Keywords: Fred C Palmer Edmund Reid on his bridge.jpg Postcard of Hampton-on-Sea Herne Bay Kent England dated 1910 showing Edmund Reid the police detective who investigated the Whitechapel murders Reid is standing on the bridge that he and a neighbour built over Westbrook; the council promptly said it was unsafe and demolished it In the background is the Hampton Inn on Hampton Pier Avenue ;Points of interest The cliff edge fronting Hampton-on-Sea has not yet eroded as far back as it is today Reid has put on his best clothes for the photograph The bridge cannot have existed for more than a few days or weeks so Palmer was possibly called in for the photograph almost immediately after it was built Next to the Hampton Inn animals graze where now there are houses The hut at the end of the pub garden is probably the lavatory block The postcard may have once been tinted but if so the colour has almost completely faded Scan of postcard circa 1910 Palmer took similar pictures of the same site in that year Fred C Palmer d 1941 out of copyright Other views of the same subject are File Hampton-on-Sea 1910 023 jpg and File Hampton on Sea 1911 125 jpg PD-art Erosion in the United Kingdom Disasters Buildings in Kent Edmund Reid | ||||
