Plan taken from 1868 O/S
Plan taken from 1868 O/S
The portion of a photo, which dates pre1880, shows the bay looking from the North West before the bay was filled with large hotels of which just two are visible on the scarp line - on the right the Falcon's Nest on the left what I think became the much altered Eagle Hotel.- St Catherines Church, consecrated 1880, would fill part of the gap.
Below the scarp is a terrace of fisherman's cottages built by Willam Milner (commemorated in the tower on Bradda Head) who lived aprt of the year in Port Erin and cobtributed much to its development as a place for genteel family holidays somewhat removed from the noise and bustle of Douglas. The large house a little inland from the scarp line, near the Falcon's Nest is the 'The Rest' (later to become York House), built on the Magher Logh(Lake field) ,which was owned by Wm Milner who was a sucessful maker of fireproof safes in Liverpool.
The Primitive Methodist Chapel, standing on the small eminence of Dandy Hill can be seen to the right of the Flacon's Nest.
See also Edwin Waugh's guide of the late 1860's
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