I am trying to do some studying on the development of Douglas and have an amazing book published for the Douglas Borough Centenary. This is a book that reflects the life of Douglas and what the Council has achieved over the past 100 years or so.
So this is the paragraph that caught my attention and […]
In the Victorian era the Isle of Man became a popular destination up until the early 1960’s when people wanted to travel to foreign destinations on cheap flights looking for sunshine.
Currently we are have more interest in the island from travellers who are looking at heritage, history and a destination closer to the British Isles, […]
With the cold weather almost at an end, the Victorian transport system starts to come alive, and there is nothing nicer the the smell, the sound and the look of an old steam train.
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Victorian Douglas
The Douglas horse tram service is the oldest horse drawn tramway in the world.It is unique in the northern hemisphere – the only other similar service being in Victor Harbour, South Australia. The service started life on August 7th, 1876 as the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway and was the inspiration of a retired civil engineer, Thomas […]
I went to a talk recently titled Boys will be Boys about the treatment of juveniles during the 19th Century and how they were dealt with and was surprised at how harsh the punishment was during that period.
To the modern eye the treatment of juvenile criminals in the 19th century appears to be particularly savage. […]
There has recently been a lot of hype in the media about the new Star Wars film and tonight I am going to find out what it is all about. I have seen all of them and have always been a great fan of science fiction and the question ‘is there anybody out there’?
When we […]
We always think it pretty standard that on Christmas day we celebrate the birth of Christ and at Epiphany we get the Christmas tree down otherwise it will be bad luck! (But in some countries Epiphany signals the arrival of the Magi and the bringing of the gifts)
Most often we do not look for the […]
On Saturday I went to the Manx Museum to listen to a talk on the three ‘ships’ that were relevant to the first few minutes of the Lusitania’s sinking.
We all know about the sinking of the luxurious liner Lusitania in just eighteen minutes off the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland in 1915 by a […]
