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A Tour of Onchan 2
Round The Edges.
Hague Drive
The pair of semi-detached houses were approved for building bye-law purposes in September 1934 with plans being roughly drawn by the builder Robert J. Skillicorn one of the sons of J.T. Skillicorn. He lived in the lower side one, Garey Ween until his sudden death on 14th March 1968. Robert, or Bob as he was called, was well known locally for the roses he grew in his large garden and like his grandfather Robert was also involved in Onchan affairs such as being Warden of St Peter’s Church and a member of Onchan Village Commissioners.
52 – 70 Summerhill Road
This group of houses date from the early 1930s and appear to have all been designed by R.H. Cain, the architect. They were built in a field of the Hague Farm running alongside the road with the sod hedge left as the front boundary. In the 1950s, as part of a road widening scheme the hedge was removed and a new wall of concrete blocks, manufactured by Rural Industries of Braddan, was built in front of all the houses and a pavement laid down. There have been alterations over the years to the various houses; No 52 has had the garage turned into a granny flat, No 60 had a garage added in 1934 and No 58 had a garage with bedroom above added in 1973. Nos 62 – 66 were commenced in 1931 and the end pair, 68 and 70 with their somewhat different style got underway in 1932. |
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Summerhill Road with the distinctive black and white finish on Nos 68 & 70. The concrete block wall provided by the Highway Board to all the properties when the road was widened is visible in the photograph. |
15 – 23 Summerhill Road
These individual bungalows were all built by L.L. Corkill and Co to the designs of L.L. Corkill (see The Hague, Tour No 1). Plans for No 15 were approved in October 1935, No 17 in 1936, No 19 in 1937, No 21 in 1936 and No 23 in 1945. They are all built on part of the Hague Farm which L.L. Corkill bought in the early 1930s and laid out for building purposes. No 15 was for many years called Ballamona and was owned and occupied by the widow of Armitage Rigby the architect (see Royal Buildings, Tour No 1) who together lived at Ballamona Farm, Port Soderick until his death in 1910.
Of recent times this has had the leaded windows replaced and a garage built in front of the dwelling thus taking away its original quaintness.
Hague Walk
This road was also laid out by L.L. Corkill but was never developed fully on both sides and neither was the field it bounds through which he laid sewers in anticipation. Equally the road has never been made up and adopted. The only house on the left side No 1, was built in 1947 – 48 and shows the restraints of post war building material permits. It was designed by J.P. Lomas. On the other side No 2 was designed and built by L.L. Corkill in 1936 – 37 whilst No 4 was built many years later in 1962 to the designs of R.H. Cain. No 6 was another of L.L. Corkill’s design and build bungalows whilst J.P. Lomas was responsible for No 8 in 1947. R.H. Cain designed No 10 in 1948 for Mr G. Curphey and the end property No 12 was designed by J.P. Lomas in 1948 for Mr C.E. Fielding. |
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Hague Walk showing on the left one of the houses L.L. Corkill designed and built. Here he used the same roof tiles and boundary wall finishes as on his own house in Governors Road (see Tour No 1). |
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