Historic photograph of the Whitegates (or White Gates) area exiting Ramsey town, Isle of Man, showing the white entrance gates leading to Claughbane Farm. The left bend shown is generally well known as Whitegates, being a point on the Snaefell Mountain Course used for motorsports.
Date
circa 1860
date QS:P, 1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source
Manx iMuseum (Manx National Heritage), see their archive homepage. This archive is considered to be expert in the field and no author of this 1860 image is known; therefore no further research has been attempted. The original is a scan of a print; this version has a slight crop all round to remove the white border.
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