People gathered on Ramsey promenade
Date(s): late 19th century-early 20th century
Creator(s): Midwood, Thomas Horsfall
Place made: Ramsey
Scope & Content: With little boy in early form of wheelchair. Also shows collector for German band - Herr Neu a Bavarian. Miss Gibb of the Grove in her recording with Stowell Kenyon remembered:
"We'd go down to listen to Neu's band on the Promenade, that was before the First World War, they were Germans and they came over every summer, from the beginning of July to the middle of September and everybody walkied on the south Promenade and sat about and listened to them, and during the day they used to go around and play at different places perhaps in front of an hotel or perhaps in front of someone's house who was generally glad to hear them and gave them some money."
#imuseumpromenade
Language: eng
Physical description: black & white print
Item name: photograph
Collection: Photographic Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: PG/10085
Subject tags : Isle of Man, holiday, tourism, tourists