Water tower or Folly in St. Helens, Hastings?

[whiffler]

An obituary in the latest Observer for a Tim Tidmarsh.

Can't see how this would tie into the card scribble, but someone might.

[Richard]

Divided back postcards were not introduced until 1902.
The postal rate for postcards was a halfpenny, but increased to one penny on 3rd June 1918.
So the post card in question is somewhere between that age range and probably before WWI on 4th August 1914, because why would anyone send such a card in wartime?

Tidmarsh, as its name suggests has marshes, these feed chalk streams after heavy rainfall.
The only referenced folly is 'Wilder's Folly', a red-brick brick tower or dovecote (Nunhide dovecote) built in 1769 by Reverend Henry Wilder of Sulham House.
Sulham being a smaller parish adjacent to Tidmarsh.
No mention of a dovecote, folly or water tower in Tidmarsh at all.

Not an easy one to crack and the lack of a printing company's name and address on the back of the postcard is rather unhelpful too!

[Richard]

JackieM,

To rule the Tidmarsh area out entirely, you could always contact the following to ask if the building is known of in the area:

http://www.tidmarshwithsulham.co.uk/contact.htm

Then perhaps we can move on.

Kind regards,

Richard

[whiffler]

There were a couple of towers marked in the grounds of Ore Place, which is St Helen's territory.

Not sure that I can make the orientation work in relation to the trees and grazing.

Might Tidmarsh be a person at the Jesuit college?

[Richard]

whifler,
The crumbling ruins of St. Helens Church are altogether different.
The postcard picture shows a structure in fairly good condition and not the shape of a church tower at all.

[whiffler]

My comments are not about the Church or its tower.

The area is St Helens, in which was Ore Place, among its scattered outbuildings are two towers.