Antique & Vintage Postcards

Belfast Castle glimpsed through the trees from "The King's View" on Cave Hill — a pale Scottish Baronial tower rising from the green slope beneath the dark basalt escarpment of Cave Hill, framed by conifers and a pasture fence. Belfast Castle was completed in 1870 on the slopes of Cave Hill, 400 feet above the city, in a style inspired by Balmoral Castle; it was the seat of the Marquess of Donegall and later the Earls of Shaftesbury before being gifted to Belfast Corporation in 1934. The feature known as Napoleon's Nose, the dramatic cliff profile of Cave Hill, is believed to have inspired Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Published by Valentine's Series, Dublin, printed in Scotland. Card no. 5329E. Never mailed.