My friend John at Scriptor's Postcrossing has been kindly sending me postcards of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Great Britain. I think these two are the first I'm sharing, but I do have a few others that need to be scanned and shared still. This is St. Kilda, which is part of the Hebrides off the coast of Scotland. St. Kilda was finally abandoned by people in the 1930s and has its own subspecies of animals such as the St. Kilda mouse. It looks quite beautiful and broody. I have a fascination for islands (living in a place that is entirely landlocked!), so I would love to visit there someday.
The stamps on the reverse are from a series from the National Portrait Gallery celebrating the 150th anniversary. I recently received T.S. Eliot and now have Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dame Cicely Saunders.
I suspect this postcard needs no introduction! Stonehenge was constructed sometime between 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE. According to John visitors used to be able to walk amongst the stones but they no longer can as it has been fenced off. There is a literary association, too, if you've read Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles you'll recall a rather poignant scene at the end of the book which took place here! You can read more about Stonehenge here.
I think the faces on the stamps on the reverse of the card might just be as familiar as Stonehenge! I now have a commemorative stamp of Prince William and Catherine Middleton's wedding last April 29 (and the anniversary is just over two weeks away). I had no idea that J.K. Rowling's characters from the Harry Potter books had been immortalized on Royal Mail postage stamps. I have the wicked Lord Voldemort!
Thanks again John for the great postcards and stamps!