Lovely visit last week to the tholtans and well. Blue skies and a deceptively piercing wind on occasion, it was like needles penetrating exposed skin. I could not tell if…
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Below is the final chapter from Lancashire Sketches (third edition) published by Edwin Waugh in 1869. It is quite lengthy but a delightful read. I do not know how accurate…
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Bannaghtyn ec yn shass greiney souree shoh. Greetings/Blessings on this Summer Solstice.
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We first hear of the Quakers (aka Society of Friends) in Lord Fairfax’s time (1651-1660), when the governor prohibited anyone from receiving them into their houses, and the Quakers themselves…
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On the Isle of Man, the little red woman of Carraghan when travelling through the hills was sometimes followed by a goose. Though she was most often seen flitting about…
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Known as ‘the Hump’, this tumulus was recorded in 1930 as being 15 yards in diameter (13.7m) and 8 feet high (2.4m). It sits in a beautiful setting at Ballaleece…
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Not everybody liked the flowers of the country side. My father, like many farmers, regarded some wild flowers as weeds and detrimental to his crops so they had to be…
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The first Ordnance Surveys of the Island were done c.1867-1870 and are rich in detail showing what treasures the Island had at that time like standing stones, tumuli, cairns, holy/healing/domestic…