This card was posted in 1946, but dates from the late 30's or very early 40's, as I was always told that the woods were cut down during the war. I remember the stumps in the early 60's, just as the ground was re-planted. That has now also been felled.
The house in the forground is now roofless having been repalced in the 60's by a modern house on the road, and no 71 in the lower right of the picture, would have still been inhabited by Kirsty Mackay.
The original postcard was a bit damaged, hence the ragged marks around the Watch Hill. This one dates from the 30's, and its interesting to note the evidence of a much more intensive grazing regime, with a quite "bare" look to much of the common grazing.
You can also see a hip roofed thatched house - with smoke blowing east - in the centre of the picture, just behind what is now Nurse Gunn's house.
