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Aerial Photographs of Onchan

One of the Millennium projects that the commissioners decided to carry out was to have Onchan photographed from the air.

This was undertaken in conjunction with Island Photographics of 37 Bucks Road, Douglas in 2001. Both the urban and rural areas were covered and the following are examples of the many photographs taken.

A full selection of contact prints are available for viewing at Island Photographics from whom copies may be obtained by the public

Just click on the photograph or link for the full size view

		The Clypse and Kerrowdhoo Reservoirs with the water partially lowered. Beyond at the upper part of the photograph are the upper reaches of the Birch Hill Park Estate. Full Image

		A typical detail of the farm photographs taken close into the buildings. This shows Kerrowdhoo Farm where everything is brand new, the farmhouse on the right and all the farm buildings. Full Image

		A familiar property from a different angle. Here we have Kate’s Cottage on the TT Course. Note the evidence of former cultivation in the foreground just below the dwelling in the form of ridges. Full Image

		Into the centre of Onchan now and the Village Walk shopping precinct. In the bottom right hand corner is The Archibald Knox public house and in the background is Nursery Avenue, Church Avenue, Elm Drive, Elm Tree Road and Main Road. Full Image

		A mixture of houses in this photograph. Right in the centre of the picture are the pair of houses designed by the famous architect Baillie Scott. Leafield and Braeside in King Edward Road. The top of the picture is Howe Road and in the foreground is Majestic Drive. Full Image

		Taken during the early days of the construction of the new apartments on the site of the former Majestic Hotel, once the premier hotel in the Isle of Man with its outdoor swimming pool and extensive grounds. The coastal footpath can be seen in this photograph passing on the edge of the cliff top. Full Image

		Another photograph of construction work. Here the site of the former of the Douglas Bay Hotel is being excavated for the basement car park to be provided beneath the new office block which has now been constructed on the site. Beyond are the houses of Royal Avenue, Royal Terrace and Falkland Drive. Also in the picture is Port Jack Glen which originally opened out onto the beach but in the 1890s the whole area in between (under the shops) was filled with stone excavated from the cliff face to create King Edward Road and the electric railway track. Full Image

		Taken in the top corner of Birch Hill Park, this photo shows some of the fields of Ballachrink Farm and houses in Birch Hill Crescent, Highfield Crescent, Highfield Close and Sunnybank Avenue. In the foreground is the Hillberry Road, part of the TT Course. The triangular plot of land to the left is part of the Centenary Park which is being gradually reclaimed from the former Hillberry Tip to be a place of public recreation in years to come. Above that is the covered reservoir that serves the upper part of Onchan. Full Image

		A mixture of development stretching from the 1930s to the Millennium Year in this photograph. In the background are a couple of houses in Sunningdale Drive, the Eskdale Drive, King Edward Park and in the foreground King Edward Road and some of the apartments at Sea Cliff Road. Full Image

		The concrete roads of the Ballachrink Estate with all the cracks show up in this photograph of Ballachrink Drive with Snaefell Crescent and Molly Quirks Glen beyond. Full Image