Frances - interesting old map. I must try to enlarge it to see the house I was brought up in. I went to Ballasalla school - I was actually born in a small nursing home in the then tiny village - now pulled down. My grandad used to come over the fields where now there is a residential housing estate & he used to lift me up to show me all the minks in cages. Little did I know then what fate awaited these poor animals! The railway gates were opened manually by Jackie & we used to run up when a train was due to be swung on the gates when they were opened on the the main road. Happy times.