"Manx Archaeology" - Old
Postcards & Photo's
Ballaugh
Castle
Rushen & Castletown Area
Peel
& The West
Ramsey
& The North
(including Maughold
& Glen Auldyn)
Laxey
(The Great Flood 1930) (NEW
PAGE - Feb. 2002)
Old Photographs:
(Braddan Crosses,
Maughold, King Orry's Grave, Rushen Abbey, The cloven Stones)
Old
Family Photo's:
Chimney on Thatched
Cottage & Harvest Workers
The photograph taken for this postcard was taken
prior to 1929
as Laxey School (built in 1929) is missing.
(Thanks to Dee & Ray Hickman
in the US of A for this one)
Does anybody know where this is?
Postmarked: MY 15 04 DOUGLAS I.OF-MAN
Sent to: Falcon Hotel, Douglas
Comments: (Front) "Out of her cottage ran this little
lass
To see Mr Girling on his motor pass
Dear Fritz, if I had a little more knowledge and a little more space
I'd tell you all about his race"
(Back) (address written across "Communication" &
"Address")
Cregneesh
(Cregneash)
Postmarked: JY 6 05 DOUGLAS
Sent to: Preston
Comments: "arrived safe at 6.15. Slept all the way. Sorry
could not stop longer.
Does anybody know where this "Mud Hut" is?
Postmarked: (unreadable because stamp has been removed)
Sent to: Llanfelles (?), Nr. Mold
Comments: "Thank you very much for the pretty post card
received this morning. With lots of love and kisses from Nanna. 5th Aug
1906."
page created: September 2, 1998
last revised: 2002/02/07