The passing of the old Grammar School, Douglas
Date(s): 1932-1934
Creator(s): Frowde, John James
Scope & Content: On the back of this photograph Frowde writes, '(Mid-Winter) The passing of the old Grammar School. On L the entrance to the house portion, up and down the step of which the youthful feet of T E B tripped lightly nearly a century ago. On part of the fenced in ground R, stood the Step-Down Inn. Literally so. The floor was two steps below the level of the street. As stated earlier in this set, I hope to include this with a number of 'pukka' photos from plates taken with a focussing drop-plate camera over 30 years back, as a supplement to this film series. The latter are only memory joggers. The plates make sharp pictures and I did lantern slides of most of them. 'Step-down' Inn included in this set - see back'. Additional notes: 'T E B was born i 1830 - May 5th. The family left for Braddan Vicarage in 1832. So T E B didn't step much. Crawl perhaps'. : 'Thwaites I of M, p 174, 1863 Men. in the Episcopal Registry - The School-house, where the Chaplain resides, the scite (sic) left by Alderman Dixon, a native of Douglas, to Bishop Wilson, for a School-house, and built mostly at the expence of Mr William Murrey, merchant, who in his Will left it free and debtless to the town. Title deeds are in the temporal records'.
Language: eng
Extent: overall: 14 cm x 9 cm
Physical description: black & white print
Item name: photograph
Collection: Photographic Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: PG/8224/2/42