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…
Category: Onchan
St Peters Church – Church Road Onchan
The large stone in the wall in the bottom left of the image is known as the “Whipping Post” legend has it that it may have been used to tie the local vicars horse up too, however, its origin is more likely to be that it formed part of a semi-circle of similar stones associated…
Fly Fishing at Clypse Reservoir – Onchan
Whilst we were out for a walk around the Clypse and Kerrowdhoo reservoirs over the weekend I captured these guys doing a bit of fly fishing, as you can see by the image there is a definite Autumnal feeling as the fly fishing season must be coming to an end. The Clypse Reservoir is the…
Steve Hislop Memorial – Hague Crescent Onchan
1962 – 2003 – This bronze statue of the late TT and superbike legend Steve (Hizzy) Hislop stands proudly overlooking Douglas Bay from his late hometown of Onchan. The memorial was unveiled by Geoff Duke OBE in June 2005. The image was captured on my Nikon D80 SLR with a Nikon 18-135 F3.5/5.6 G AFS…