Old Onchan Picture Gallery 1

The Hague Farm House (rear view)

At one time owned by Richard Betham LLD, the first Collector of Customs appointed after the Revestment Act of 1765.

Betham was collector for 24 years and his second daughter, Elizabeth, married Captain William Bligh (then a lieutenant) in the old parish church of Onchan on 4th February 1781. Bligh was to become famous as a result of the Mutiny on the Bounty which took place in 1789, the same year as Richard Betham was to die.

The property subsequently changed hands many times and at one point in history the house was run as a seminary for young ladies.

In the mid 1920's most of the land, owned by the estate of Mr Penny was auctioned off; the purchaser of the majority of the land was Mr L L Corkill ARIBA, an entrepreneurial builder who developed along Governors Road, Summerhill Road and Hague Walk.

Further development was curtailed by the outbreak of the Second World War and the compulsory purchase of the land by Onchan Village Commissioners to create Onchan Park

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