POSTCARD CROSSROADS SCENE Hampstead postmark UK LOCATION The Ryder Memorial Well

[ShaunJ]

The second house on the left has a sign over the door - is that legible on the original?

[sugarbakers]

Francis Frith

http://www.francisfrith.com/bovingdon/bovingdon-high-street-and-the-ryder-memorial-c1965_b409012

The Wheatsheaf

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/hertfordshire/bovingdon_wheatsheaf.html

Well done, Rhododendron

[ShaunJ]

Well done Rhododendron - Bovingdon, Herts looks like the one - in this photo the Bell Inn is visible

http://www.ourdacorum.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/Stg00109_Ud3.jpg

http://www.ourdacorum.org.uk/page_id__101.aspx

[ShaunJ]

More old pictures here

http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/places-b/bovingdon/bovingdon.htm

The structure is the Ryder Memorial Well

[ShaunJ]

Might the shopkeeper be Wilson rather than Hanson? Harry Wilson had a grocery/drapery shop in Village Street in Bovingdon. Apologies that's not right

[Ruskie]

Brilliant find Rhododendron.
I'm not sure if this link will work but you can find the same viewpoint on google maps streetview:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ifs/

(sadly a few changes, most noticeably the lovely buildings on the near right have gone ...  )

[ShaunJ]

The shopkeeper is Alfred Hinson , draper, per the 1901 census 

[Rhododendron]

Thanks Ruskie.  It's not often I can help in some way, so pleased I could on this occasion.

And yes the Google view did work.  And it looks great.  Thanks.

[groom]

Well done Rhododendron, what a great find.