Interview with Frank Cowin about Derbyhaven, Castletown, Port Erin and Peel harbours
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Date(s): 1996
Scope & Content: Tracks 1 and 2: Frank Cowin talks to Kirsty Neate about Derbyhaven, Castletown, Port Erin and Peel harbours relating to trading and maritime industry Frank talks about Derbyhaven’s suitability as a port and its early development; schemes to cut a canal across Langness; red herring, running trade, tobacco trade; breakwater; Castletown harbour; Steam Packet office in Castletown; rear of Bridge House and the slipway for the ‘Peggy’; Bridge House including bank vaults; brandy hole; vaulted cellars; metal swing bridge and predecessors; north quay (the ‘Irish’ quay); warehousing; Umber House; origins of the Glue Pot building; gun platform; inner archway of the harbour; rope walk; local schoolchildren’s help in launching ships; Castle Rushen and harbour in 1820s; drainage; harbour floor; inner harbour; bridges; tail race from Golden Meadow Mill; Hope Street and environs; Qualtrough’s Yard; Castletown Brewery and Lorne House; inner arch of road bridge; mill race; ramp way for lifeboat; lifeboat building; inner sill on harbour and its use for tin bath racing; cannons.
He talks about proposed development of Port Erin as a refuge port around 1864; railway lines built to service harbour works; quarry in Port Erin; delineation of old town of Port Erin; Falcon Hotel; breakwater; types of breakwater, including ‘Abernathy’s Birdcage’; harbour works bringing about electoral change in the Isle of Man; South Bradda mine, underground engine house and railway; Milner’s Tower; Marine Biology Station; lifeboat station and slipway; navigation aids; marina; Douglas breakwater; north of side of harbour; Courthouse opposite Peel Castle; Crown Street; police station; Peveril Hotel; tunnels and vaulted cellar beneath courthouse; Farrar’s Foundry; inlets and docking bays along harbour side; tobacco industry in Peel; coal yard and Compton Garage sites; bistro; Creek Inn, ‘mystery warehouse’; museum building and Peel railway station; kipper factories; red herring and kipper; boatbuilding; position of the church with relation to the cathedral; south side of harbour and breakwater; vertical boiler steam engine.
Language: English
Extent: 1 hr. 19 min. 46 sec.
Item name: cassette tape
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: SA 0404
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