A non stop photographic journey around the beautiful Isle of Man by Peter Killey
(3 Images in this post) Oh dear, the day after storm Barra and the devastation done by the high tide to the Sunken Gardens on Loch Promenade in Douglas. 3 seperate sections of sea facing walls all damaged and the gardens flooded. Feel free to make any comments either on this website by clicking the…
A selection of demolition images with the first image showing this Hotel back in 2015. The Imperial Hotel was built in 1891 from ruabon brick brought from Wales and was originally two hotels in the one building, the Imperial closed it’s doors in 2006 and has thereafter been unused as a Hotel, I always remember…
My first trip for what must be at least 15 years on a Horse Tram on Douglas Promenade, it was fantastic and I am going to do it again soon 🙂 Feel free to make any comments either on this website by clicking the ‘Leave a Comment’ text in this post above or by visiting…
These properties were originally laid on the lawns of the Castlemona Hotel. They are dated circa 1840 and I particularly like the old style architecture on these buildings, namely the arched doorways, the window pediments above the first floor windows and the old cast iron balconies that remain on some of these Victorian properties. Feel…
Just a slightly different view of the Continental Market on Loch Promenade in Douglas yesterday. Feel free to make any comments either on this website by clicking the “Write comment” below or by logging onto my Facebook Page enjoy – Click on the image for a larger view.
Popped down to take some images of this organised walk to the Tower of Refuge tonight, there were literally thousands of people queuing to walk out to the Tower at low tide, I just took some images from the Promenade walkway (basically because I could not be bothered queuing and it was starting to rain). The image was…
On Saturday 20th Nick and myself took Ted for the longest walk of his 13 week old life along Douglas Promenade 🙂 Ted loved the walk but as we discovered he has some dislikes as well! Basically as you can imagine there are lots of things happening on the Promenade and Ted soon found that…
Douglas Corporation Horse Trams are now in their 145th year of operation. It is universally acknowledged that they are the oldest operating horse drawn tramway system in the world. These three images depict an open topped single decked tram, a covered single decked tram and the unique double decked horse tram – (click images for larger…
Captured these guys dancing near to the War Memorial on Douglas Promenade today, there was a few groups dancing which was all part of the Yn Chruinnaght Programme for 2011 – (click image for larger view). The image was taken on my Nikon D80 SLR with a Nikon 18-135 F3.5/5.6 G AFS DX lens at 32mm…