Tynwald Hill 🇮🇲 from a slightly different perspective, I stood on a wall behind the Hill and stretched my right arm as high and to the right as much as it would stretch to get this shot Lol 😂 Feel free to make any comments either on this website by clicking the “Leave a comment”…
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The House of Keys in Bucks Road (Manx Parliament)
The Island is a Crown Dependency which, through its ancient parliament, Tynwald, enjoys a high degree of domestic legislative and political autonomy. The United Kingdom Government is, by convention, responsible for the conduct of the external relations and defence of the Island. Dating back over one thousand years to Viking origins, “Tynwald is the oldest Parliament in the…
Legislative Buildings – The Wedding Cake – Tynwald
Part of Central Government Offices in Bucks Road in Douglas is this Legislative building which is better known as “The Wedding Cake” The Government on the Isle of Man is a parliament called Tynwald. Tynwald is over a 1000 years old and believed to be the oldest continual parliament in the world. The image was…
Tynwald Day 2012 – Our Isle of Man Political Leaders
Had a very brief and quick trip down to Tynwald Hill today to mark the Isle of Man’s National Day (July 5th) I did not get too many images but was able to grab a shot of all our Political leaders (MHK’s MLC’s and Lieutenant Governor etc) after the Tynwald Ceremony, they were all seated outside the…
The Court of Tynwald, The Manx Sword of State and Legislative Council Chamber
I spent a pleasurable hour walking around the court of Tynwald the other day during my lunch break. All of the below images were captured on my Fuji X10 camera resized and cropped in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Feel free to make any comments either on this website by clicking the “Write comment” below or by logging onto…