5th December
A few more 'Travels'
pictures from Glasgow
   
Returning home Wednesday
3rd on the 'Ben-my-Chree' with a flat calm sea
    
6th December
Some pictures taken
on a trip out yesterday morning
    
Taken yesterday afternoon
on a visit to Douglas
     
    
8th December
Pictures taken in the
Scarlett area yesterday morning
     
The pictures below are
of buildings that survive from the WW2 Chain Home radar station constructed
at Scarlett in 1940 as part of the defensive network around the coast of
Great Britain. There were two other Chain Home station on the IOM, at Dalby
and Bride and a Chain Home Low
radar station on Mull
Hill, above Cregneash. Originally the transmitter and receiver buildings
were completely covered with earth to
protect against bomb
damage, but this has been eroded over time.
   
Douglas in the afternoon
   
9th December
At The Sound and Port
Erin yesterday
   
11th December
Stormy seas at Peel
yesterday afternoon
   
12th December
Some overnight snow
showers left quite a covering on the high ground this morning
    
   
13th December
'Santa Trains' on the
Steam Railway this morning. Seventeen pictures are in Railways
2014 Pt 4
    
15th December
These pictures should
probably really be in the Railway section of the site, but I thought I'd
put them in the main section as they are
re-worked photographs,
dating back to the 1990s in some cases, processed using Corel Painter Essentials.
They depict the 'single digit' numbered locomotives from No 1 to No 9 all
built in the 19th century and with the exception of 'Loch' none are currently
in service. Engine No 2 'Derby' and No 7 'Tynwald' no longer exist and
No 3 'Pender' is a sectioned exhibit in a Manchester Museum.
     
20th December
Some pictures taken
this afternoon in the Glen Vine area
  
Marown Old Church
   
21st December
Some more pictures from
yesterday afternoon
St Mark's
    
Derbyhaven & Fort
Island
    
  
   
24th December
Around the Laxey area
this morning
    
    
    
A Sparrowhawk in our
back garden
  
Christmas Eve in Douglas
    
27th December
Nice view through the
front window this morning, looking down to Douglas Head, then the third
picture is taken in a heavy hail shower!
  
28th December
Late yesterday afternoon
in the Brandywell & Druidale area
    
    
  
31st December
Two pictures taken with
two days between them, sunset on Sunday 28th and sunrise on Tuesday 30th
 
A nice walk in the sunshine
yesterday morning, to the summit of South Barrule, via the South Barrule
quarry
   
    
  
Just had a quick count
up on the last day of 2014, at the end of 15 years of Island Images. Over
the past year I have posted 1,118 pictures of the Isle of Man, 251 pictures
of the island's railways and 299 Aircraft pictures taken here. 'Away'
pictures not counted. I hope you have enjoyed looking at them and
will continue with more in 2015. Wishing all visitors best wishes for the
New Year!
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