A view from Douglas Head today and I must say the wild flowers are stunning and worth a look, so well done to Douglas Borough Council.
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Sycamore Cottage – Ballabeg
I just love this little colourful roadside cottage and them scalloped shaped slates 🇮🇲
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Got another visit into the garden this afternoon from this beautiful male Great Spotted Woodpecker 🇮🇲
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A few butterflies during a walk around Ballaugh today 🇮🇲
1 – Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
2 – Common Blue Butterfly
3 – Common Blue Butterfly
4 – Painted Lady Butterfly (in abundance summer 2019)
5 – Peacok Butterfly
6 – Small Copper Butterfly
Nikon D500 – Sigma 105mm Macro Lens.
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Kirk Braddan new Cemetery Chapel. I have to admit I love a walk around a graveyard.
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Well done to Port St Mary Commisioners and the Wild Flowers of Mann Project, this little wild flower area of Port St Mary was teaming in wildlife today including I would say around 500 Painted Lady Butterflies 🦋 🇮🇲
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Molly Carrooins Cottage – The Butt in Onchan
Close to the Wetlands and St Peters church in Onchan is Molly Carrooins cottage which was in fact not built as a cottage but as a weaving shed which was converted to a cottage around 1800 when a chimney stack was added to the outside of the gable wall, it then later became the home of the village washerwoman.
This tiny-whitewashed cottage, which is probably one of the oldest buildings in the village, has now been fully restored to give a taste of true village tradition, and is sometimes open to the public.
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This lovely old Manx Tholtan is called Ballarghey 🇮🇲
It sits between Higher & Lower Foxdale behind Lhea Kerrow Farm, I believe it was once lived in by Philip Cain and his family but I am unsure how long ago since it was last inhabited!
Access was with kind permission from the land owner.
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“The Old Sail Loft and Smithy”
On Shore Road in Port St Mary 🇮🇲
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I recently spotted this very old Manx wind turbine and as it was rusty red very run down and seized I thought I would share it here 😊 🇮🇲
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3 images of Manx Tholtans, image 1 and 2 are Park Llewellyn. This beautiful once loved Manx Tholtan at Park Llewellyn sits on the foot of the slopes of North Barrule. Quite difficult to imagine how tough life in this isolated home might have been. But believe me the view out the front door overlooking Cornaa Valley with views of the North Laxey Mines nearby might have been some consolation. Without a doubt one of the most beautiful ruins on the entire island 🇮🇲
Image 3 is the nearby Tholtan of Cornaa Farm which I believe was still occupied in the late 70’s, again this beautiful once loved home enjoyed very similar views to the neighbouring Park Llewellyn.
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The quaint interior of St Lukes Church in West Baldwin.
St Lukes Church was formerly attached to the parish church of Kirk Braddan and now Marown, the church was built in 1836 on the site of a Celtic church called “Keeill Abban”, an ancient Celtic cross has also been built into the west gable section of the building which was also used as a school up to 1871.
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