Now better known as Nightlife, this building has been in Market Place in Ramsey since at least 1846.
The building is an Isle of Man Government listed building and looking at the beautiful architecture you can understand why that is.
If you look up above the first floor windows you can see Saddle Hotel inscribed in the stonework with carved saddles below.
A blacksmith used to have his foundry in the lane that runs alongside and I wonder if this has some connection to the name ‘Saddle Hotel’?
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Thank you. I’m 76 and now have a picture of where my mother lived and grew up. I was adopted at birth so knew not a lot about my family. The email belongs to my niece.
Hello Sue, My friends mother also lived and grew up here and she was adopted too, she is 82.
Played the piano there for a summer season in the early sixties .Rose Turner are u there ???????
A visitor to the isle of man this looks an amazing building what a crying shame it could not be revived
Hello, the blacksmith you mentioned that worked in the lane alongside the Saddle Hotel was my great great grandfather, John Corkill.
I have copied the following from a newspaper article on imuseum.im : Peel City Guardian | Saturday, May 10, 1913 | Page: 4. Considerable excitement was caused in Ramsey Market place on Tuesday evening, when an elderly man named John Corkill, who was walking along a lane by the side of the Union Hotel, was seen to fall forward, expiring practically instantaneously. He had been subjected to sudden seizures for some time and had been medically attended, and consequently no inquest was necessary. Corkill, who was 64 years old, was employed by Mr W. T. Teare, blacksmith, Ramsey, but in his earlier days he carried on business on his own account in a smithy that formerly stood on the site of the present Saddle Hotel.