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Camera Obscura

 

Please join us on Friday 26th April at 8:00pm

 for an illustrated talk -

 

   Deep Inside

 Bradda Mines
 

The southernmost mine on the Island,

at Port Erin

with Peter Geddes MBE


Non-members most welcome at:

The Barbara Cottier Lecture Theatre at St. Ninian's High School

8:00pm Friday 26th April
Admission: Members Free, Non-Members £2 contribution to room hire. Includes light refreshments.
Please use the Somerset Road Entrance (faces the rear car park) for vehicles and pedestrians

 

 

Friday 22nd March

Peter Kelly 

   Wish You Were Here
 

An Edwardian Postcard Tour of the Isle of Man


Non-members most welcome at:

The Barbara Cottier Lecture Theatre at St. Ninian's High School

8:00pm Friday 22nd March
Admission: Members Free, Non-Members £2 contribution to room hire. Includes light refreshments.
Please use the Somerset Road Entrance (faces the rear car park) for vehicles and pedestrians

 

February 19th 2024

Edition No 121 of the Isle of Man Victorian Society Newsletter

Has just been published and posted out to members! 

This edition is yet another bumper 48 pages!  Made freely available to fully paid up  members.

Discover the following news, stories and information on interesting and important Manx Victorian related heritage -

  • Arts and Crafts house under serious threat  
  • The fashion of Short Cake dancing
  • Victorian and Edwardian buildings of importance
  • New Books of Manx interest written by members*
  • Two attempts at a cathedral for Douglas
  • The great loss of Mr Robert Fyson
  • The development of Douglas portrayed in plans
  • Two different Sulby Churches
  • A Victorian Architect for an ancestor
  • Local man building 12 horse trams
  • The family firm who let down Dawsey Kewley
  • Red and Yellow brick houses in Douglas
  • The anchor that never came back
  • MER on the right track
  • A Town Band on the right note .

*Please note there is an error in the web address on page 16 - alternatively search at abebooks.co.uk

 

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Join us on Friday 23rd February at 8:00pm

for an illustrated talk by  Dr. Peter Litman entitled

 

   ‘It’s the Cathedral which killed him!’ Bishop Rowley Hill

and his Cathedral of 1884.   
 

Fuelled by ambition,  and against a political storm and public speculations,

Bishop Rowley Hill pitches his concept and desire for an Island Cathedral.


Non-members most welcome at:

The Barbara Cottier Lecture Theatre at St. Ninian's High School

8:00pm Friday 23rd February
Admission: Members Free, Non-Members £2 contribution to room hire. Includes light refreshments.
Please use the Somerset Road Entrance (faces the rear car park) for vehicles and pedestrians

 

 

 

 Friday 26th January 2024

The AGM will begin at 7:30pm and will

 be followed at 8:00pm by

 

What the Victorians

Have Done For Me

 

a fully illustrated talk

by Chairman Tony Pass

Non-members most welcome

 Both will take place in the Barbara Cottier Lecture Theatre

at St. Ninian's High School

Admission Members Free, Non-Members £2 contribution to room hire. Includes light refreshments.
Please use the Somerset Road Entrance (faces the rear car park) for vehicles and pedestrians