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2021 News - Home Page Archive (For the current latest news click on Home on top menu)
26th November 2021
This evening’s meeting at the Barbara Cottier Lecture Theatre, St Ninian’s High School is going ahead starting at 8:00pm, despite the inclement weather. This is the last Victorian Society meeting for 2021. The talk is titled “Demolition Discoveries - Victorian Revelations” - buildings lost to the bulldozer in recent years with a link to Biddy Baxter!
10th October 2021
NEWSLETTER Edition 115 of the Isle of Man Victorian Society has just been published and was distributed to members over the past week from 6th October.
The contents of the 48 page bumper edition newsletter are as ever wide ranging and informative:
• Where was there another Camera Obscura overlooking Douglas Bay ?
• A Douglas dad satisfied with our advice;.
• A man obsessed with making concrete blocks;
• A guided tour of lower Port St Mary;
• Vic Soc members on the Laxey Trail;.
• A paddle steamer converted into a sailing ship;.
• The demise of the red telephone box;.
• When did the big name stores come to Douglas ?.
• Two other ex Knockaloe huts revealed;
• How members faired on an I-Spy hunt of Peel;.
• What does the letter I stand for in Capone’s ?.
• Why were all the Victorian faces removed ?
• What were the first two red brick buildings in the Island ?
18th May 2021
NEWSLETTER Edition 114 of the Isle of Man Victorian Society has just been published and distributed to members on Friday 14th May. Members should have now received it.
The contents of the 44 page newsletter booklet are varied and interesting.
• The architect who didn’t charge;
• Why Hercules moved from Douglas to Peel;.
• How the Victorian ice creams looked bigger;
• The Manxman who wrote the most famous song in the world;
• A wild architect in Ramsey;
• Edwardian ice cream and chocolate maker in Douglas;
• Where the red brick came from;
• How a Victorian seaside resort was born;
• The short-lived railway that served thousands;
• Two more Knockaloe huts recycled;
• The Manx pier named after the Duke of Edinburgh;
• The Castletown lad who created the BBC.
21st April 2021
The 2021 AGM will take place at the Barbara Cottier Lecture Theatre, St Ninian’s High School, Douglas at 7:30pm on Friday 30th April. Please note this earlier starting time than for normal meetings.
This will be followed by Nigel Crowe’s talk on The Duke’s House - the evolving design for Castle Mona in its Context”
18th April 2021
The Heritage Grants page has been updated with more colour photographs and further grant details.
31st March 2021
The Heritage Grants page has been updated with more information on the grants given by the Society for restoration of Victorian assets - which now exceed a total of £20,000. For details of how to apply for a Heritage Grant from the Society please go to that page.
12th March 2021
Meeting on Friday 26th March CANCELLED.
Due to the Covid-19 lock-down and the likely caution necessary for future public gatherings if it should conclude before the 26th, we have decided to cancel the meeting and postpone the speaker to a later time.
For similar reasons the proposed AGM on Friday 30th April may also be subject to postponement.
Any update to the situation will be featured here.
25th February 2021
Our Next Meeting is Friday 26th February at 8pm
‘Through the eyes of a Quayside Hobbler’
A riveting visual tour of Douglas Harbour and quayside in Victorian times with John Kelly at the Barbara Cottier Lecture Theatre, St Ninian’s High School .
New Newsletter binders will be available to purchase for £8.50. Each will hold a dozen copies.
NOTE THE NEW DATE FOR THE AGM
The AGM will now be held on Friday 30th April at 7.30pm prior to Nigel Crowe's presentation 'The Duke's New House'. Notice of the new date is being conveyed to members with the latest newsletter. The AGM of the Isle of Man Victorian Society was to have taken place on Friday 29th January but this fell within the Circuit Breaker Lockdown which was lifted on 1st February.
NEWSLETTER 113 published at the end of January and is currently being distributed to members.
This is a bumper 48 page edition and once again is full of information not previously published.
* Where did the original Groudle waterwheel come from ?
* What are the stone carved crests that have recently appeared at Nobles Hospital ?
* Why you shouldn't refer to Little Isabella.
* Who was a modern day Manx Worthy ?
* What was Hokey Pokey ?
* Who designed the Groudle Hotel ?
* Two more ex-Knockaloe huts still being lived in.
* The family with 16 Methodist Ministers.
* Victorian Lectures on line.
* The night the Tower of Refuge failed.
* How a burning desire took 60 years to ignite.
15th January 2021 Events Card and Letter to be Circulated to Members
Following the January CV19 Lock-Down we have decided to postpone the AGM and Andrew Scarffe’s talk planned for Friday 29th January and the following meeting planned for February 26th is subject to review. Details of the resumed programme and AGM will follow later in February or possibly later when we are sure of the lock-down situation and the public health advice from the Isle of Man Government.
Members will shortly receive the annual programme events card and an explanatory letter.
Newsletter 113 is due to be published soon but the lock-down is affecting the ease with which that is usually arranged - so watch this space!
