Postcard No. 3 - View from the marshes, leigh on Sea

This card is postmarked 11.30 am on August 24th 1909.

Its addressed to Miss B Haines

72 Woodhays (Woodheyes) Road,  Neadsen (presumably Neasden?) N.W.

Message reads:

Dear Bertha,

I am very sorry I did not see you Saturday night. I want to tell you something may i write a letter?

Yours loving Joy

In an unusual twist, the sender has also added her address at the top of the card which reads

Emsleigh Villa, Elmesligh Drive, Leigh on Sea.   I have looked on 1911census.com but there is no-one there called Joy or Joyce at the same address just 2 years after this was posted.

Bertha was 17 at the time as i have found her on 1911 census aged 19. She is a dressmakers assistant, born in Hull, Yorkshire and living with her parents Frederick & Emily Haines.

What a mysterious message it is. I wonder what Joy wanted to tell Bertha and how strange that she asks if she can write her a letter to do so.  Just one of the annoying parts of documenting these postcards is that you may never know just what the message meant.