Howstrake Holiday Camp Howstrake Holiday Camp, King Edward's Road, Groudle Howstrake, established in 1907 was the first holiday camp in the British Isles. The Camp replaced the “Cunningham’s International Young Men’s Holiday Camp”, which occupied the same site, from about 1897 until 1903. The beautiful forested Groudle Glen with nature trails, beach and minute railway, lies immediately to the north of the site. The campsite […] Read More
IDive – IOM Keith McKay, is an independent PADI Scuba Diving instructor based in Ramsey. PADI courses available include Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver, Divemaster; speciality courses include Digital Underwater Photography, Deep Diver, Wreck Diver, Underwater Navigation, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Multilevel and Computer Diving. Read More
Injaigyn Plantation Injaigyn plantation, Onchan A small plantation of conifers just outside Onchan where the old water works used to be. Read More
Injebreck/West Baldwin Reservoir West Baldwin Road , West Baldwin, IM4 5EU Used by the Isle of Man film industry because of its beauty and because it looks like Scotland. The reservoir is stocked with rainbow trout between March and October and can be fished with a licence. There is a disabled access point for fishing. There is also a boat house for small craft and kayaking. […] Read More
Interesting and Unusual Graves Jurby Church yard and Douglas Cemetery have a number of war graves. At the beginning of the Second World War certain grave spaces were set aside by the local authorities in Block NF in the northern part of Douglas cemetery for service war burials, and this group now contains 25 war graves. The remainder are […] Read More
Isle of Man Archery Club Onchan Community Centre, School Road, Onchan, IM3 1RD The Club holds practices and matches at different locations on the Island. Archery is the skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. This ancient art dates back to the Paleolithic or Mesolithic periods. The target in competitive sport is a series of coloured rings with a bull’s eye in the middle. Open to anyone […] Read More
