The 4th Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers along the Snaefell Mountain Course. No specific history beyond its role as a distance marker was found.
This terrace of eight dwellings, numbered 5-9 Charles Street and 1-11 Queen Street, Peel, was registered as a protected building on 1 January 2002. No further verifiable history beyond its registered status was found.
Number 5 Parliament Square was known as Cornish House while occupied by the Roberts family; R. C. Roberts, a tailor, kept a business there. The building later became Brown's Café and, separately, a knitting factory, before eventually being converted into offices with a health-food shop on the ground floor, according to William Henry Cooper's history of the town, a small illustration of how these Georgian townhouses on Castletown's old parliamentary square have been repeatedly repurposed over the generations.
5 The Parade is a Registered Building entered on the Protected Buildings Register for its architectural or historic interest. No further documented history was found beyond the registration record.
The 5th Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers along the Snaefell Mountain Course. No specific history beyond its role as a distance marker was found.
6 Finch Road stands on a street in central Douglas that dates back to at least the early nineteenth century, referred to as 'Vinche's Road' in an 1831 newspaper reference and as 'Finch's Road' on John Wood's 1833 map, a name recalling the Vinch family, who held land at nearby Ballakermeen. The road became established as a location for professional offices close to the Legislative Buildings and Douglas's main banks. No further verifiable history specific to number 6 itself was found.
6A The Parade is a Registered Building known in the Island's own records by its former trading name, "The Odd Bottle" (also recorded as Castle Wine Stores), pointing to a past use as a wine and spirit shop. No further documented history was found beyond this.
The 6th Milestone falls near Appledene Corner on the A1 Peel Road, a stretch of the course noted for road-widening works over the years. Beyond that, no further specific history was found for this marker.
7 Ballure Road is a house in Ramsey included on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings list. No further verifiable historical information about this specific property was found.
Number 7 The Parade was built in the 1790s as one half of a semi-detached pair with the neighbouring number 8, originally rendered over its red sandstone construction; it retains its original red sandstone front steps, a basement area and railings. According to William Henry Cooper's account of the town, it was for a time the home of the Government Chaplain, George Stickler Parsons, who lived from 1795 to 1855. The house stands among the Georgian terraces of The Parade, next to the site of the town's Co-op.
The 7th Milestone, like the 6th just before it, falls near Appledene Corner on the A1 Peel Road, a stretch noted for road-widening works over the years. No further specific history was found for this marker.
8 Finch Road stands on a street in central Douglas that dates back to at least the early nineteenth century, referred to as 'Vinche's Road' in an 1831 newspaper reference and as 'Finch's Road' on John Wood's 1833 map. The building itself retains full-height Georgian-style windows and, from its upper floors, sea views over Douglas Bay; it sits toward the top of Finch Road near the junction with Prospect Hill, within easy reach of the Island's Companies Registry and main banks. No further verifiable historical detail specific to number 8 was found.
The 8th Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers along the Snaefell Mountain Course. No specific history beyond its role as a distance marker was found.
This is a registered building at 9 Athol Street, a street in central Douglas that has been a focus of legal and commercial activity since the nineteenth century, when it was known as Atholl Street after the Dukes of Atholl, former Lords of Mann. No further verifiable historical detail specific to number 9 could be found.
The 9th Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers along the Snaefell Mountain Course. No specific history beyond its role as a distance marker was found.
The Aeroplane and Seaplane Store stood among RAF Jurby's wartime hangars, which reportedly included an F-Type hangar, two T2-type hangars, four Bellman hangars and nineteen Blister hangars serving the training station. No historical detail specific to this individual store building beyond its registration and the station's general complement of hangars could be verified online.
The Albert Tower commemorates an unplanned royal visit: in 1847 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, cruising the Irish Sea aboard the royal yacht, anchored in Ramsey Bay, and Prince Albert came ashore to walk up the hill above the town to admire the view, causing a scramble among local officials to receive him. The hill was renamed Albert Mount in his honour, and the tower's foundation stone was laid on Easter Monday 1848 by Mrs Eden, wife of the then Bishop of Sodor and Man. Paid for by public subscription and designed by engineer C.W. Buck, the 45-foot slate-and-granite tower stands on Lhergy Frissel in the parish of Maughold, just over the Ramsey boundary, overlooking the town. It served as a lookout post during the Second World War and has been closed to the public since.
Albion Terrace, a row of nine houses (numbers 2 to 18) in Ramsey, was registered as a group of protected buildings in August 1994. Beyond this official listing, no further published history of the terrace's construction or residents has been found.
All Saints' Church on Alexander Drive first opened in July 1898 as a chapel of ease to St George's, built to serve the growing population of the newly developed upper part of Douglas following a diocesan conference decision in 1897. Its corrugated-iron exterior earned it the local nickname the "Tin Tabernacle," but this cladding did not withstand the Manx climate well, and the church was entirely rebuilt in concrete and angular modernist lines, reopening on 20 April 1967 as one of the few major modernist buildings on the Island and the last new Anglican church built on the Isle of Man for over fifty years. Structural problems later emerged that were estimated to cost around £400,000 to repair, leading the church to close permanently on 1 May 2017 and subsequently be sold.
Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands. Manx trading vessels engaged in the eighteenth-century smuggling trade maintained commercial links with Dutch ports, and the Netherlands featured in the broader network of European trade that connected the Isle of Man with Continental markets.
Andreas Rectory, with its surrounding buildings and land, was for centuries the most significant residential building in Andreas village. It appears in the historical account of the antiquarian William Blundell, who described the parish during the 1648 to 1656 tenure of Bishop Samuel Rutter, indicating the rectory's presence in the village stretches back at least to the seventeenth century. It remains a notable landmark within the small farming village of Andreas.
Arch Tower House, tucked behind a high-walled garden on South Quay, is one of Douglas's more unusual small buildings, with a castellated exterior and an internal spiral staircase leading through a trap-door to a flat roof that gives an extensive view over the town. Despite local legends claiming greater antiquity, a legal document of June 1853 describes it as a 'newly erected, castellated dwelling house,' meaning it was likely built only shortly before that date, probably by Thomas Shimmin, from whose widow it passed to a Mr Perrie in 1860. It later belonged to Mrs Ann Perrie, a widow, and the modest scale of the house belies its architectural charm.
Balcony House on The Parade was the town house of Captain John Quilliam, who served aboard HMS Victory as a Trafalgar hero under Nelson; he also had connections to Balladoole, home of his relatives the Stevensons. The tallest house on its side of The Parade, it is notable for its ironwork balcony and fine fanlight over the front door. The house fell into serious disrepair by the mid-2000s, at one point losing roof slates to a would-be developer whom the local Commissioners were powerless to stop, before passing into sympathetic ownership around 2010 and being restored.
Also known as the Rushen or South Foxdale Mine, Ballacorkish near Kirk Christ Rushen was one of the more successful of the Island's smaller mines, raising lead and zinc from three shafts reaching a depth of about 140m (459ft). Recorded as a working lead mine on the 1868 Ordnance Survey map, it closed around 1895 as cheaper imported ore made it uneconomic.
