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Former Banqueting House Ballamoar Farm Patrick Road Patrick Village Isle Of Man IM5 3AW
A former banqueting house stands among the historic farm buildings at Ballamoar Farm on the Patrick Road, just outside Patrick village. Beyond its inclusion on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings list, no further verifiable detail about the structure's construction date, builder, or original use could be confirmed online.
Former Customs Office The Quay Castletown IM9 1LD
This former customs office (later used as social security offices) on The Quay is registered for its architectural or historic interest. No further documented history beyond the registration itself was found.
Former Doctor's House Hospital Strang Douglas IM4 4RF
This former Doctor's House stood at Strang, near Braddan, on the site long associated with the Island's hospital and infirmary buildings, including the former Ballamona Hospital (opened 1868 as the Isle of Man Lunatic Asylum) and the neighbouring Braddan Poor Home, later Mannin Infirmary. The specific building known as the Doctor's House is included on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings list, but no independently verifiable history particular to this house itself was found.
Former Douglas Court House And 13 Athol Street Douglas IM1 1QJ
This Athol Street building began life in 1841 as a hall for the Oddfellows friendly society, its front distinguished by large square Corinthian columns supporting a portico beneath a balustraded roofline. It was then run for some years as a theatre, under the management of Mr James Rogers of the Hanley theatrical circuit, before being taken over in 1860 to serve as the Island's principal courthouse, also hosting sittings of Tynwald and the House of Keys before those bodies moved to Prospect Hill. It also functioned as a police station and, until the 1970s, held juvenile offenders in cells on its top floor under conditions later remembered as Victorian in character. The courthouse function moved to a new building on Buck's Road in 1996, and the old building has since been redeveloped as a bar, restaurant and nightclub, with its historic facade retained.
Former House Of Keys Building Parliament Square Castletown IM9 1LA
The Old House of Keys on Parliament Square housed the lower chamber of the Manx Parliament for more than two centuries. Bishop Wilson built a meeting house on the site around 1706, combining a small assembly room where the Keys sat with a library above funded by the Academic Fund Trustees, but by 1813 the Duke of Atholl described the structure as 'in the most ruinous condition'. Declared dangerous in 1817, the Keys temporarily moved to the George Inn while Thomas Brine, the newly appointed Clerk of Works, rebuilt the meeting house on the same site to a reduced plan that preserved the original window arches. After the House of Keys relocated to Douglas, the building was sold to Dumbell's Bank in 1877 and continued in banking use until the 1990s, when Manx National Heritage acquired and restored it as a museum of the Island's legislative history.
Former Lifeboat House Breakwater Road Port Erin Isle Of Man IM9 6JA
This is the boathouse of Port Erin's RNLI lifeboat station, on Breakwater Road. The RNLI approved a station for Port Erin in 1882 after local requests, and it formally opened in 1883, its first lifeboat, the Ann and Mary of Manchester, funded by a legacy from Richard Roberts of Blackley, Manchester, and blessed by the Lieutenant Governor before her first launch. An initial boathouse went up in 1884, with a slipway added in 1900 to ease launches. The building seen today dates from 1925, the same year a motor-powered lifeboat arrived at the station, and it is noted for having the steepest boathouse slipway of any RNLI station, at a 1-in-4 gradient. It was extended in 1996 and its slipway remodelled again in 2006 to accommodate a newer Atlantic-class inshore lifeboat.
Former Methodist Church Aka Red Cross House Derby Road Douglas IM2 3EN
This building was constructed in 1890 as the Methodist New Connexion chapel on Derby Road, designed by J.W. Firth of Oldham and built by William Kelly of Douglas in a Gothic style faced with Glenfaba brick relieved by Ruabon brick and terracotta, with stone tracery windows and a spire, seating around 500 worshippers. The chapel closed in 1914 and was sold to St Thomas's Church for use as a church hall, later becoming a Red Cross centre that operated until 2008. In July 2011 the Manx National Youth Band purchased the building, converting the ground floor into a permanent rehearsal venue with the upper floor made available to other musical and cultural groups.
Former Newson's Trading Building, 27-28 North Quay Douglas Isle Of Man IM1 4LE
This North Quay building was for decades the home of Newson Trading, an outdoor clothing and workwear retailer that traded from the site for around 61 years before finally closing its quayside doors in October 2016 and relocating further into town on Strand Street. The shop was a long-familiar fixture of the North Quay for generations of Douglas shoppers before the move brought its long quayside chapter to a close.
Former Principal Keepers House Douglas Head Douglas IM1 5BP
This former keeper's cottage sits high on Douglas Head, one of the Isle of Man's most dramatic coastal viewpoints. An earlier lighthouse on the headland dated from 1832, and after the Northern Lighthouse Board took over the station a new lighthouse was built in 1892; an additional keeper's dwelling, engine room and fog signal turret were added around this period. By the late nineteenth century Douglas had become a popular holiday resort and the lighthouse itself drew so many visitors that keepers had to restrict public viewing to set hours around the middle of the day so they could still carry out their duties. The keeper's cottages were later sold off and are now in private ownership.
Fort Anne Hotel
A hotel established in the buildings of Fort Anne during the 20th century. The hotel shut in 1974 and the buildings were later demolished, but replaced by an office building built in a similar style. The original building was once home to Sir William Hillary, the founder of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute.
Fort William-India House Correspondence Vol. XIII (1796-1800): Public, Revenue & Law Letters
Fort William-India House Correspondence Vol. XIII (1796-1800): Public, Revenue & Law Letters
A published collection of official correspondence between the East India Company's Court of Directors in London and the Company's government in Fort William, Bengal, covering 1796-1800. Includes public letters, separate revenue letters on salt and opium monopolies, and law letters. Contains an introduction covering Company trade, monopolies (salt, opium), and administrative matters during the governorships of Sir John Shore and Lord Wellesley.
Founding of Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh
The Manx Language Society — Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh — was founded to preserve and promote the Manx language. A.W. Moore and others recognised that the language was dying and that its loss would mean the loss of the Island's cultural identity. The Society's work would eventually feed the revival that produced Bunscoill Ghaelgagh a century later.
Four Roads Smithy, Port Erin
Modern smithy. Former blacksmith's workshop. The property is still known as the Smithy. The building is marked on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping, although not annotated. It appears to have been associated with two further buildings sited to the north-east, arranged around a yard. These have now been demolished, possibly to facilitate the development of the roundabout at the adjacent junction, and the yard grassed over. One wall of the more northerly of the two demolished structures forms part of the boundary wall.
Fox Cottage Bishopscourt Kirk Michael Isle Of Man IM6 2EZ
Fox Cottage stands within the Bishopscourt estate at Kirk Michael, the historic seat of the Bishops of Sodor and Man. Beyond its listing on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings register as a cottage, no verifiable historical detail specific to Fox Cottage itself could be found online.
Foxdale Heritage Centre (former Foxdale Railway Station)
Built in 1886 as the terminus of the narrow-gauge Foxdale Railway, a branch line constructed to serve the district's rich lead, zinc and silver mines, the station closed in 1940 as the mining industry collapsed. The building later served as headquarters for the Manx Flux & Mica Company and as a community centre before reopening in 2004 as the Foxdale Heritage Centre, telling the story of the village and its thirteen nearby mines.
Foxdale Mill
Modern watermill and associated water management. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868-9 shows a building at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation 'Corn Mill'. The mill building is orientated east-west. The wheel was located on the south wall, and various annexes, now demolished, provided storage. It was supplied by a leat extending 95m upstream, where the inlet took water from the river by means of a weir and sluice. A short 15m tail race returned water directly to the river. The mill machinery was removed in 1971 and the building subsequently converted into a dwelling. The mill leat supplies garden water features.
Foxdale Mill
Modern watermill. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868-9 shows a building at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation 'Corn Mill'. The mill building is orientated east-west. The wheel was located on the south wall, and various annexes, now demolished, provided storage. The mill machinery was removed in 1971 and the building subsequently converted into a dwelling.
Foxdale Mill
Modern mill leat. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868-9 shows a building together with the annotation 'Corn Mill'. A leat provided water power to the mill. This extended 95m upstream, where the inlet took water from the river by means of a weir and sluice (at the grid reference provided). The mill leat supplies garden water features.
Foxdale Mill
Modern mill tail race. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868-9 shows a building together with the annotation 'Corn Mill'. A short 15m tail race returned water from the mill directly to the river at the grid reference provided; it is now built over.
Foxdale Mines
A large lead mining complex in Foxdale, shown as a working Lead & Silver mine on the 1869 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map. The Foxdale Mines were part of a mineralised zone running east to west from Elerslie mine in Crosby to Niarbyl near Dalby. Mining at Foxdale was noted as early as an 1724 governor's report, which predicted its closure - an assessment proved wrong when Michael Knott of Kendal reopened the mines in 1823 under lease from the Duke of Atholl. By 1830 a lode "a yard square" had been discovered, and by 1848 Foxdale was described as "the most productive [mine] in the island," averaging around 2,400 tons of silver-lead ore annually through the 1840s; the operation was incorporated as a limited company in 1853. The North lode ore was noted for high silver content, ranging 50-400 ounces per ton, with some Tetrahedrite/Fahlerz ore averaging 3,000-4,000 ounces of silver. Between 1828 and 1885 the mines shipped roughly 120,000 tons of lead ore, generating an estimated £61,850,000 in revenue. The mines closed in 1911. iMuseum holds archival material including a longitudinal section of Central Foxdale mines (showing Amy's Engine and Taylor's shafts) and photographs of Foxdale miners from 1899.
Foxdale Mound
A mound of uncertain origin shown on the 1869 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map. P.S. Gelling and A.M. Cubbon belived it to not be a mine spoil tip. The site has been built over in modern times.
Foxdale Railway, Narrow Gauge
A record for the Foxdale Railway, a 3-foot gauge line which operated from 1883 onwards. It was run by the Manx Northern Railway Company between St John's and the Foxdale mines. It amalgamated with the Isle of Man Railway in 1904. The line closed to passengers in 1940 and was dismantled thereafter.
Foxdale Railway, Narrow Gauge
A record for the Foxdale Railway, a 3-foot gauge line which operated from 1883 onwards. It was run by the Manx Northern Railway Company between St John's and the Foxdale mines. It amalgamated with the Isle of Man Railway in 1904. The line closed to passengers in 1940 and was dismantled thereafter.
Foxdale Railway, Narrowgauge
The course of the former Foxdale Railway, which was a 3 foot gauge line operated by the Manx Northern Railway Company between St John's and the Foxdale mines. It was opened in 1883 and was amalgamated with the Isle of Man Railway in 1904. It closed to passengers in 1940. It finally closed in 1960 and the line was taken up in the mid-1970s.