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Snaefell – A mountain and a Railway by Andrew Scarffe
£14.99
Author : Andrew Scarffe Format : Softback, 29.7cm x 21cm Pages : 160 Publication Date Late June 2020 Publisher : Isle of Man Transport The Snaefell Mountain Railway was the first mountain railway in the British Isles. Opened in August 1895, it was built in only eight months by pioneering Victorian engineers at a time when electric traction was in its infancy. Today, the Victorian tramcars still climb to Snaefell’s summit, 2036 feet above sea level, where the mountain scenery and views are unrivalled. This book tells the story of the Snaefell Mountain Railway and also of the mountain itself. It recalls the history of the railway, from the first attempts to build a steam railway to the summit through to the present day. The rich social history of the mountain, mining, folklore and wildlife is described. It is illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs, many of which have not previously been published. Due to be published 19th June 2020 – available to pre-order. 
Steam Packet 190
£18.95
Author(s) John Hendy, Miles Cowsill Format : Hardback, 22cm x 22cm Pages : 144 Publication Date :Summer 2020 The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company is the oldest continually operating passenger shipping company in the world, having began operations in 1830. Today the company carry’s some 600,000 passengers annually, 170,000 cars and is the Island’s lifeline for freight. This book is an update on the history of the Isle of Man Steam Packet since our 175th Anniversary publication. The title includes a history of the company year by year, including the takeover over of the operation by the Isle of Man Government in 2019. The book includes a wealth of new photography since the last edition in 2005. Due to be published Summer 2020. 
Isle Of Man Countryside, Coast & Churches
£9.95
Author(s) : Alan Cooper Format Softback, 21cm x 14.8cm Pages : 168 Publication Date : July 2020 Publisher : Lily Publications This book is for those who want to experience the great wealth of countryside and coastal walks but with the added benefit of visiting interesting and historic churches and chapels, some dating back over hundreds or thousands of years. The 22 walks described here with detailed maps will take you through the many different landscapes of the Island – valleys, glens, open moorland, idyllic rural landscapes, craggy cliffs and sandy beaches. It includes walks exploring the heritage of our principal towns. The walks vary from 2 to 11 miles and are easily accessible by car or bus. If you are looking to explore the Isle of Man and see some wonderful and unique churches and chapels that tell stories about its history and social development this book is for you. Due to be published July 2020 – available to pre-order |
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This soprano ukulele comes with a free kit bag.
The Travel Series is a truly unique range of ukuleles. They are made almost entirely from ABS plastic, but with a wooden top. The TUS35 has a linden plywood top with wiped colour satin finish. The arched back, plastic body allows for great sound projection, but also fantastic durability. There is no binding between the body and neck, which is also plastic and so will not bend. This ukulele is perfect for beginners, for players that need a portable uke but also for players looking for something a bit different. Body Shape - Soprano (12 frets) Top - Linden Back & Sides - ABS Bridge - ABS Neck - ABS Fretboard - ABS Nut & Saddle - ABS Position Markers - 5th, 7th, 10th and 12th frets. Premium Features - Zero Fret, Wooden Top, Arched back, Open Geared Tuners, ABS Fretboard, Side Dots.
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"The Travel Series is a truly unique range of ukuleles. They are made almost entirely from ABS plastic, but with a wooden top. The TUS35 has a linden plywood top with wiped colour satin finish. The arched back, plastic body allows for great sound projection, but also fantastic durability. There is no binding between the body and neck, which is also plastic and so will not bend. This ukulele is perfect for beginners, for players that need a portable uke but also for players looking for something a bit different. Body Shape - Soprano (12 frets) Top - Linden Back & Sides - ABS Bridge - ABS Neck - ABS Fretboard - ABS Nut & Saddle - ABS Position Markers - 5th, 7th, 10th and 12th frets. Premium Features - Zero Fret, Wooden Top, Arched back, Open Geared Tuners, ABS Fretboard, Side Dots"
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The Travel Series is a truly unique array of ukuleles. They are made almost entirely from ABS plastic, but with a wooden top. This model is part of the Art Range which incorporates some beautiful and unique designs which really makes the range stand out from the crowd. It has a linden plywood top. The arched back, plastic body allows for great sound projection, but also fantastic durability. There is no binding between the body and neck, which is also plastic and so will not bend. This ukulele is perfect for beginners, for players that need a portable uke but also for players looking for something a bit different.
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The Travel Series is a truly unique range of ukuleles. They are made almost entirely from ABS plastic, but with a wooden top. The TUS35 has a linden plywood top with wiped colour satin finish. The arched back, plastic body allows for great sound projection, but also fantastic durability. There is no binding between with body and neck, which is also plastic and so will not bend. This ukulele is perfect for beginners, for players that need a portable uke but also for players looking for something a bit different. Body Shape - Soprano (12 frets) Top - Linden Back & Sides - ABS Bridge - ABS Neck - ABS Fretboard - ABS Nut & Saddle - ABS Position Markers - 5th, 7th, 10th and 12th frets. Premium Features - Zero Fret, Wooden Top, Arched back, Open Geared Tuners, ABS Fretboard, Side Dots.
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TUSEE Elise Ecklund Sunset Travel Uke
“There’s something truly magical about a sunset. No matter where you are in the world, you can admire the beautiful colors streamed across the sky. The times I have watched a sunset over the mountains, I’ve felt adventurous, free, inspired, and a sense of peace. I wanted to capture this feeling on a ukulele. This soprano travel uke is for music lovers of every level, whether you are just starting out or have been playing for years. Pick it up and take it on every adventure with you.” Elise Ecklund
The Flight Travel Series is a truly unique array of ukuleles. They are made almost entirely from ABS plastic, but with a wooden top. This model is has been designed in collaboration with Flight artist Elise Ecklund and has a beautiful design. It has a linden plywood top. The arched back, plastic body allows for great sound projection, but also fantastic durability. There is no binding between the body and neck, which is also plastic and so will not bend. This ukulele is perfect for beginners, for players that need a portable uke but also for players looking for something a bit different.
Body Shape - Soprano (12 frets)
Top - Linden
Back & Sides - ABS
Bridge - ABS
Neck - ABS
Fretboard - ABS
Nut & Saddle - ABS
Position Markers - 5th, 7th, 10th and 12th frets.
Premium Features - Zero Fret, Wooden Top, Arched back, Open Geared Tuners, ABS Fretboard, Side Dots.
Free of charge gig bag.
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Set includes:
Set of 6 x 75 ml acrylic paints, colours are black, white, red, green, blue, yellow and 3 brushes
Little Book of Rock Painting
Daler Rowney Gloss Varnish for Acrylics
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This Royal Langnickel set has everything you need for acrylic painting. Ideal for the beginner, student or experienced artist and makes a great gift for kids and adults. The aluminium case it comes in has clear windows on both sides so you can easily see what is in the case and transport your materials wherever you go.
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This Royal Langnickel set has everything you need for watercolour painting. Ideal for the beginner, student or experienced artist and makes a great gift for kids and adults. The aluminium case it comes in has clear windows on both sides so you can easily see what is in the case and transport your materials wherever you go.
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This Royal Langnickel set has everything you need for painting and drawing. Ideal for the beginner, student or experienced artist and makes a great gift for kids and adults. The aluminium case it comes in has clear windows on both sides so you can easily see what is in the case and transport your materials wherever you go.
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This Royal Langnickel set has everything you need for sketching and drawing. Ideal for the beginner, student or experienced artist and makes a great gift for kids and adults. The aluminium case it comes in has clear windows on both sides so you can easily see what is in the case and transport your materials wherever you go.
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A Bridge Bookshop selection of Daler Rowney watercolour / sketching equipment, bundle includes:
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Available now.Published by Loaghtan Books
Paperback 128 pages
210 mm x 210 mm
When holidaymakers discovered the Isle of Man, Port Erin became a favourite place to visit. Hotels were built and life started to revolve around the needs of its visitors. The old photographs in this book are drawn from the postcards such visitors sent home.
Now the town is reinventing itself again. Gone are most of the Victorian hotels, with their ballrooms, live entertainment and seaside competitions. Bathing machines have been turned into garden sheds and donkeys no longer trot along the sand. This book reminds us of the dramatic changes which have taken place in this seaside town.
by Sara Goodwins
Paperback 32 pages
Published by Loaghtan Books
The Isle of Man is noted for is its collection of stone crosses carved out of local slate and
decorated with swirling designs and fantastic beasts. Christian symbols, they also carry the sagas and language of pagan Viking invaders.
For centuries the crosses stood majestically in the landscape braving the weather and changing
fashions. Often they were the most striking man-made features in the Manx countryside.
Today most of the ancient crosses have been given sheltered accommodation in their old age.
Yet, for something so famous quite a lot is still tantalisingly obscure. Who raised the crosses and
why? How were they carved? Where did the stone come from? What do they mean? And do other countries have similar memorials?
This book explores and explains the stories behind these enigmas of the Manx landscape.
Published Oct 2019 by Rushen Heritage Trust, pre-order now
Paperback, 24cm x 17cm
Pages : 264
The fascinating history of Port St Mary and its people.
HOW A SMALL SEASIDE VILLAGE PARTNERED WITH THE SEA
If you live by the sea you get to know it as a partner, adapting to its moods, from calm, sunny days to furious stormy nights. Throughout its history, the people of Port St Mary ƒ?? known locally as Purt Le Moirrey ƒ?? have lived by and with the sea. It has provided them with a living, from fishing to shipbuilding to tourism. Without the sea, the village would not exist. The sea in question is the Irish Sea, in which the Isle of Man sits at the centre ƒ?? from Port St Mary, you can look across to England and Wales, and from its neighbouring twin, Port Erin, you can see the Mountains of Mourne in Northern Ireland.
This book, written by a team of ten volunteer authors who love Port St Mary, traces its fascinating history from 1829, when it depended entirely on fishing and farming, to 1979, the Millennium Year when the Isle of Man celebrated one thousand years of continuing independent government, the oldest in the world.
This is the story of a port and its people, from school teachers to shopkeepers, from boarding house owners to WWII German internees, from nurses to those who travelled the world by sea. It begins at a time when few people owned land and transport was primitive; moves on to the great days of herring fishing, with a 100+ strong fleet, the harbours bustling with fisher folk, gutter girls, kipper curers and ship builders; and through to the development of tourism and its glory days spanning the 1920s to the 1960s.
Itƒ??s a story which has universal significance, demonstrating how independent-minded people in a small place lived with the sea, made a living from it, and rode its changing moods.
This book is published by Rushen Heritage Trust, a not-for-profit charity, with all proceeds going towards the work of the Trust.
By Gemma Hjerth, illustrated by Kim Gee
In this Isle of Man ABC:
learn how creative you can be!
Hunt around Our Island, the Isle of Man.
Customise your treasure map - yes, you can!
Chose how to colour the Manx cat's face.
Add patterns to the biker in the TT race.
Record your memories of a smoky train ride.
Write 'Hello Little People' on the note that's inside.
Practise your letters, play Hunt the Wren,
match the Manx words with their pictures and then...
Make your own alphabet book, at the end.
Add a rainbow of colours, then read to a friend!
Manx culture, heritage, wildlife too.
A keep sake to treasure - and the artist is YOU!
Paperback
Gift Wrap available in Blue or Red with Manx patterns - see options
Manx ABC Poster available for ¶œ3.50 - see options
An informative, interactive and wonderfully illustrated celebration of Our Island.
It will appeal to young children, early readers and Isle of Man enthusiasts from near and far away.
You can even listen to the Manx translations in the book at www.isleofmanabc.com
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a colourful, digital illustration of an Isle of Man icon, a rhyming couplet and a Manx translation and pronunciation.
The book also features:
ƒ?½ A full page of Manx Gaelic translations and pronunciations, provided by Culture Vannin (with sound files of these to listen to at www.isleofmanabc.com)
ƒ?½ Four Manx Songs (the Manx National Anthem, The Laxey Wheel Song, Ramsey Town and Hunt the Wren)
ƒ?½ Two pages of interesting facts about the Isle of Man
ƒ?½ A little wren to hunt for
ƒ?½ Lots of Three Legs of Man to count!
Author : Dermot O'Toole
Softback, 21cm x 21cm
Pages 192
Publisher : Lily Publications
There is no more a place that is so hostile to mariners than the south-east coast of the Isle of Man, where the pitiful wind howls and the tide runs at six miles per hour. Many a sorrowful story is told of vessels tossed by the wild waves upon the cruel, sharp-edged rocks of Langness. Here at the Islandƒ??s southernmost point the cruel sea has taken countless men to a watery graves.
This book is mixed with bravery and with sorrow; the publication covers many of the main ship disasters of this wild coast, the construction of Langness lighthouse and the various lighthouses built on the Calf of Mann and the new Chicken Rock lighthouse. It is a story also of how a vigorously hard-fought twenty-year campaign by the inhabitants of Castletown, its High Bailiff and agent for the Shipwrecked Marinersƒ?? Society, led to improved lighting on the Isle of Manƒ??s most dangerous shore.
From Culture Vannin, Published Sept 2019
Ghosts, Bugganes & Fairy Pigs¶ÿis one of the most important books of Manx folklore ever published.
It offers one of the richest sources of traditional tales from the Isle of Man, including fairies, bugganes, ghosts, giants, witches and so much more.Collected over a hundred years ago by Karl Roeder, it is reprinted here for the first time since 1904 and now includes exciting additional material.Stories include the origins of Hunt the Wren, the murdered witch of Slieu Whallian, and perhaps the Isle of Manƒ??s oldest UFO sightingƒ?ÝThe book is one of the richest sources of traditional tales from the Isle of Man, much of which was gathered from Edward Faragher ƒ?? ƒ??Ned Beg Hom Ruyƒ?? ƒ?? the legendary poet of Cregneash.As well as folklore, it contains fascinating pieces on history, language, literature and other things of Manx interest, as well as some more theoretical discussions of Manx matters unmatched then or since.All of it has been faithfully transcribed and introduced by Stephen Miller, whose knowledge of the material is second to none.Anyone interested in the Isle of Man will find this book enormously fascinating and endlessly rewarding.
by Isle of Man based author, J C Williams
See also Frank n Stan 2, 3 and 4!
Frank's had better days
The doctor gave him the news he didn't want and Frank's discovered the worst kept secret in Liverpool; that his wife's fitness instructor is providing her services that extend beyond the gym.
With time a dwindling commodity, Frank decides it's time to do something he wants to do. With a little encouragement from his oldest friend, Stan, the first destination for his "bucket-list" is the Isle of Man TT Races.
They were content to just spectate, but fate had other ideas.
By Mervin Russell Stokes MBE
Edited by Miles Cowsill
Second edition
Hardback, 22.5cm x 25cm
Pages : 120
Publication Date : November 2019
Publisher : Lily Publications
And other misadventures of the former theatre manager ƒ?? 2nd edition
Due to popular demand, this book is being republished and updated, originally published in 2006. The book is not a blow-by-blow account of the extraordinary restoration of the Gaiety Theatre and Opera House in Douglas, nor is it intended to be. The words are a ƒ??tripƒ?? through the often hilarious memories and misfortunes of Mervin Russell Stokes, the man who has spent much of his working life serving the Gaiety and whose dedication in reincarnating this magnificent Frank Matcham playhouse became an all-consuming passion.
This book is a must-have for all theatre lovers.
Due to be published November 2019 ƒ?? available to pre-order.
Compiled byEmma Ames, Miles Cowsill, Sara Donaldson
Photography by Simon Park
Hardback, 24cm x 17cm
Pages 272
Publication Date :November 2019
Publisher Lily Publications
Following on from the hugely popular first edition, this new¶ÿIsland Kitchen¶ÿbrings you more mouth-watering recipes from the Islandƒ??s finest establishments. Using the Isle of Manƒ??s world-famous ingredients, you can enjoy creating restaurant-quality meals and pick up tips from the Islandƒ??s talented chefs along the way. New recipes from large restaurants, small intimate cafes, bars and breweries allow you to create the quality meals served in your favourite Isle of Man eateries, all in the comfort of your own home.
