The Ride, Brentford runs off Boston Manor Road and today is lined with houses, apart from a small section at the eastern end, which remains a footpath and joins up to Windmill Road.

The scene is very peaceful: a man carrying possibly a watering can approaching the photographer and a small boy, well aware he is being photographed, sitting atop the pedestrian entrance - which may have a swing gate. Perhaps it is his bike in the foreground.

I checked the Historical Directories website to see if I could find out more about J. Johnson, and there was a John Johnson, 34 Layton Road, in Kelly's 1907 directory. The 1911 census for this address shows he was a postman, age 42 and born in Isleworth. So was this the postcard manufacturer?