Victoria Road Prison From 1780 prisoners from the Isle of Man (including debtors) mainly served their sentence at Castle Rushen, but within a century problems arose as the Castle was unfit for the purpose. James Cowle, a Manx architect designed the Victoria Road Gaol which consisted of 21 male cells and 8 female cells and in 1891 it […] Read More
Victoria Road School School Lane, Castletown, IM9 1BA Co-Ed Primary School. Founded Maxim: A caring community where learners rise to the challenge. Read More
Victory Cafe 31st Milestone, Mountain Road, IM4 5AF The old motorcycle museum, is now a dog friendly casual diner, with a fire to keep you warm. The place has a shop and there is even a small screening room. Specialising in pies. Read More
Viking Amateur Boxing Club-ABC Victoria Road, Douglas, IM2 4AE Isle of Man Amateur Boxing is made up of two clubs. The Manx ABC, and the Viking ABC boxing club which has been affiliated and active since 1999 and is currently based in Victoria Road, Douglas. Over the last 10 years they have travelled to compete in South Africa, Miami, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Poland and Denmark. […] Read More
Vikings Badminton Club National Sports Centre, Groves Road, Douglas Since 1992, badminton has been a Summer Olympic sport with four events: men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, and women’s doubles, with mixed doubles added four years later. Read More
Vikings Hockey Club National Sports Centre, Groves Road, Douglas, IM2 1RB Nobody knows where the name Hockey comes from. It is possibly a derivative of hoquet, a Middle French word for a shepherd’s stave because the sticks used look a bit like a shepherd’s crook. Another suggestion is that the name derives from the use of cork bungs, (stoppers) in place of wooden balls to play […] Read More
