Douglas Prom 169 Posted March 7, 2017 It's been confirmed that the redundant building known as the former Ramsey Courthouse is being sold off for £475k http://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/ramsey-courthouse-for-sale-minister-confirms/ Great news and hopefully the start of many such government owned buildings being sold off! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempus Fugit 1,181 Posted March 7, 2017 are they selling the war memorial too ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GD4ELI 2,078 Posted March 7, 2017 At that price it should include Ramsey as well. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
woody2 2,848 Posted March 7, 2017 unsafe to enter apparently...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mojomonkey 2,320 Posted March 7, 2017 At that price it should include Ramsey as well. unsafe to enter apparently...... Ramsey isn't that bad. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douglas Prom 169 Posted March 7, 2017 unsafe to enter apparently...... Pull it down would be another option then! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pongo 2,002 Posted March 7, 2017 I'm fairly certain, perhaps I am wrong though, that the Courthouse was paid for by public subscription for the common good. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Wright 2,763 Posted March 7, 2017 I'm fairly certain, perhaps I am wrong though, that the Courthouse was paid for by public subscription for the common good. Not quite. Northern Courts were held in church halls and all sorts of odd places. A new court was being built in Douglas by the Duke of Atholl as Governor out of revenues belonging to the Crown after revestment (on the southernmost extremity of North Quay where one small bit of it remains). The Lt Governor asked for funds to build a Ramsey Court. The UK Treasury provided the land out of Island revenues and the majority of the building work wasfinanced by publicly raised funds, not taxation. It was supposed to be a court house and an public assembly rooms for Ramsey and the North. It was almost identical to the one in Douglas, designed by the same architect, who also designed the Castlemona (Steuart) Not sure exactly what is being sold off. Some of the group in Ramsey who want to preserve it apparently claim it cant be sold because it is held on trust for the use of the people of Ramsey and once no longer required as a Court should be returned to them. Worth remembering there wasn't a Ramsey Town council back then, there's no trust deed. It belonged to the Crown in its right of Mann and was transferred to the Government Property Trustees along with all of the Crown Property by a deed numbered 1947/1 in the Deeds Registry, which included Castle Rushen, Peel castle and lost of other interesting bits and pieces 12 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notwell 5,719 Posted March 7, 2017 It will be interesting to see what it eventually gets used for. My money is on religious money buying it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheTeapot 1,845 Posted March 7, 2017 It'll become a fucking Costa. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notwell 5,719 Posted March 7, 2017 Er.......... it wont. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pongo 2,002 Posted March 7, 2017 Thanks for posting that interesting and informed snippet of history John Wright. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
x-in-man 1,558 Posted March 7, 2017 Er.......... it wont. Starbucks then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gettafa 2,710 Posted March 7, 2017 Well surely, at least it's better than the shenanigans surrounding the sale of the Ramsey Post Office. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piebaps 1,512 Posted March 7, 2017 Hopefully it'll be knocked down and made into a tower block of apartments to compliment Kings Court. It would be Ramsey's twin towers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
