Mrs McAleer at The Dog's Home
Date(s): March 1968
Creator(s): Manx Press Pictures
Scope & Content: 'Behind the bar at the Dog's Home.' (Isle of Man Times, 12 March 1968, p.8.):
"Mrs Muriel McAleer is small, dark and pretty, looking much too young to be the mother of a 15-year-old son. She is “at home” to visitors every day because “home” is the Victoria Tavern in Drumgold Street, better known as the Dog’s Home, and if you go and sit by the fire in the oak-panelled lounge bar she’ll be delighted to serve you a drink.
Peter and Muriel McAleer have been “mine hosts” at the Dog’s Home for the past 17 years, taking over from Peter’s father, Mr Robert McAleer, who himself bought the pub in 1923. Quite a family tradition!
How did it come to be called the Dog’s Home?” I asked. Apparently the cattle market used to be held in Market Street, behind Drumgold Street, and when sales were completed the farmers adjourned to the Victoria. They all brought their sheepdogs with them, and at busy times of the day there were so many dogs in the pub that it acquired the nickname which has stuck ever since."
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Language: eng
Collection: Photographic Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: PG/13633/1/1968/234/1