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14th Milestone
The 14th 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.
15 Bridge Lane Ramsey IM8 3DE
15 Bridge Lane 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.
15th Milestone
The 15th 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.
16 Finch Road Douglas IM1 2PT
16 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 16 itself was found.
16th Milestone
The 16th 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.
17 Bridge Lane Ramsey IM8 3DE
17 Bridge Lane 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.
1779 Royal Letter and Ecclesiastical Correspondence on Charitable Collection for SPG Missionaries
1779 Royal Letter and Ecclesiastical Correspondence on Charitable Collection for SPG Missionaries
A series of three official letters from King George III (via Secretary Weymouth), the Archbishop of York (W. Ebor), and the Bishop of Sodor and Man (R. Sodor & Man), concerning a nationwide charitable collection to support the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The collection aims to relieve Anglican clergy in North America during and after the American Revolution, including those who refused to abandon their allegiance. The Bishop notes the limited capacity of Isle of Man parishes to contribute but encourages participation. The document reveals the Church's institutional response to colonial upheaval and provides context for religious and social conditions in the Isle of Man.
1792 Commission of Inquiry
Royal commission appointed to investigate the government, revenue and constitutional arrangements of the Isle of Man after Revestment. The Commissioners arrived on the Island on 21 September 1791. On the second day after their arrival Lieutenant-Governor Shaw convened the two branches of the Manx legislature at Castle Rushen to receive them. The Duke of Atholl was also present. After the Commissioners read their instructions and explained how they intended to proceed, the Keys withdrew to their own house and appointed a committee to attend the inquiry. Henry Dundas’s instructions required the Commissioners to examine the former and present state of the Island, with particular attention to the operation of the 1765 Revestment legislation. They were authorised to pursue any additional lines of inquiry which appeared likely to illuminate the condition of Manx government. Their report was dated 21 April 1792. It was organised under four broad heads: the allegations of the Duke of Atholl; the revenue; the constitution of the Island; and matters concerning the administration of justice and government. The inquiry drew heavily on oral and written evidence from Manx office-holders. Sir Wadsworth Busk, Attorney-General, supplied detailed accounts of the legislature, courts, magistracy and police. Other witnesses described customs, revenues, official salaries, courts, landholding, juries and the operation of government before and after 1765. The resulting report became one of the fullest surviving contemporary descriptions of Manx constitutional and administrative practice in the eighteenth century.
1792 Commission of Inquiry
Parliament sent Commissioners to investigate conditions on the Island twenty-seven years after the Revestment. The Commission documented the devastation — economic collapse, population decline, infrastructure decay — and recommended remedies. The Duke of Atholl testified with remarkable candour about the coercion, administrative chaos, and the rushed nature of the original transaction. The recommendations were largely ignored.
17th Milestone
The 17th 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.
18 Finch Road Douglas IM1 2PT
This is a registered office building on Finch Road, Douglas, part of a Georgian-era street close to the Legislative Buildings. No further verifiable historical detail specific to 18 Finch Road could be found.
1805 Parliamentary Debates
Parliament debated the condition of the Isle of Man. The devastation was acknowledged. And then Parliament voted to send Manx surplus revenues to the Consolidated Fund. The Island paid for its own dispossession. The circle was complete.
18th Milestone
The 18th Milestone falls within the Quarry Bends complex on the descent between Ballaugh and Sulby. Wikipedia's course guide notes this stretch of curves takes its name from a former stone quarry that was once served by a railway siding, but no separate history is recorded for the milestone marker itself.
19 Governors Road Onchan IM3 1AY
19 Governors Road is one of five adjoining houses on Governors Road, Onchan, all registered as protected buildings on the same date, 11 September 1989. No further verifiable history of this particular house's construction or occupants was found.
19th Milestone
The 19th Milestone sits almost exactly at Caley's, a left-hand kink renamed in 2017 to honour Raymond Caley, a well-known local shopkeeper, right at the start of the mile-and-a-half Sulby Straight.
1st Manx Service Coy memorial, Manx Museum, Douglas (IOM_NIWM_DOU_00022)
235 names listed in ink script, with date of death alongside name; First World War. Initials and first letter of the surname are in red lettering and the rest in black. The years after the surname which denote the date of death are also in red. There are 8 columns of names listed, with a painted landscape scene above. Two motifs on the left-hand side; the IOM Volunteers emblem and the Three Legs of Man in a gold circle. The two motifs on the right-hand side are military badges. The memorial was a private donation, presented by John H. Nicholson, R.I. Information provided by the Isle of Man Government Preservation of War Memorials Committee.
1st Milestone
The 1st Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers spaced along the 37.73-mile Snaefell Mountain Course. No incident, naming, or other history specific to this marker was found beyond its role as a distance reference point.
2 Parliament Square Castletown IM9 1LA
This dwelling and cottage at 2 Parliament Square were entered on the Protected Buildings Register in 1984 by reason of their architectural or historic interest. No further documented history beyond the bare registration record was found.
2 Quay Lane Castletown IM9 1LE
2 Quay Lane is a Registered Building in Castletown, entered on the Protected Buildings Register in 1984 for its architectural or historic interest. No further documented history beyond the registration record itself was found.
20 Church Street Douglas IM1 2AB
This is a registered house on Church Street, Douglas. No further verifiable historical detail specific to 20 Church Street could be found beyond its listing on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings register.