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When price is no longer a consideration, retailers will charge like a wounded bull, they love a mug punter.👍

As to local producers, Tesco bread flour was the go to for home bakers, they no longer stock it prefering to stock the more expensive Laxey bread flour, IMHO i reckon the Mill's wholesale price to Tesco is so low, it outstrips the profit from their own product, such is business 🙄, many home breadbakers now use M&S, flour, good quality and more affordable, it flies of the shelf, best to grab it if there is any left.

Correct, the present owners, but who built it iniitialy ?

It is still there, but as to who now owns it now--? have a look on Googly earth, it's the big ball shaped installation.

In the dim distant past, Shoprite owned the land patch behind the Breakwater, they constructed a fuel depot there, a knife to the throat for shell etc, after argy bargy, their plans to import fuel were shelved and preferential prices granted for supply of fuel by the local fuel firms. maybe this is still a goer or preferential prices will continue.

The Nicholson group also own the Onchan precinct shopping mall, Tumbleweed Town to some, wondering if that white elephant will get a new colour 🤔

Tesco's operating method of "Store it on the shelves" model does'nt fit well on the Island, undependable ferries = russian supermarket shelves. Shoprite though have the WC Wilson' store opposite the power station, frozen and dry, will Tesco adapt the method to suit the Islands needs if they grab it with the buyout?

I'm thinking that the next Vessel purchase for the Packet should be a sea going Tug 🙄

Off the top of my headI think in the 70's, The"Imp" was operated by the Birch Family, i'm unsure of who the the property owner was. The original Imperial Hotel, Douglas, was at the base of the Red Pier, built on the site of the Original Town Hall and Gaol, used as storage by the Packet in it's later years, eventually demolished. The small building to the right was part of the Town Hall building, originally the Pier Watch House, as the Piers grew, a second flor was added, in my youth it was known as the "Rocket House" as the Rocket brigade worked out of it. It still exists i'm thinking.

How dining rooms were not so long ago, I remember ones like this . Crookalls Imperial restaurant, 12 Victoris St

He is Steve England and I claim my 50£ 🤪

Not all management is good management, look to the IOM Gov departments for many, many examples 😒

Why would anyone register a building that has been dilapidated and in danger of collapse for over a 100 years ? IMHO thats where the fault lies 🙄

Ditto , but i do like a good chippy 😋 This one has been all around the room, I wish the new owners? well

Was the shift in tidal pattern caused by the breakwater extension not the cause ? I'm sure i read of this a few years back? I think in the 50's, post war, to relieve unemployment work schemes were started, my ould fella did "Tide work" on groyne installation, the Marine drive bridge replacements, similar, a good few blokes were shipped to Linconshire to harvest sugar beet, different days now 🙄

New Bathurst st chippy, changed hands again? any skeet?

Matthew?

Did you spot a sausage 👍

Did she not write a colomn for the Daily Heil and was sacked for right wing arseholery 🤔

Colemon's English would be my choice, and lots of it 😜

I can provide a sausage if requested , a Matheson's smoked is what i had in mind 🤔

In the Clarendon Grill the fillet steak was finely sliced and diced , seasoned, some beaten egg added, on a prep trolley at the table, a la Tartare, formed into a bowl shape, a piece of smoked cheese inserted and then formed into a"patty" taken to the grill and cooked to the diners choice, A Vienna Steak Yum😋

Pah! it will be plant based beer next 😝

I have done the above, I'm not sure It's for everyone. Likewise fair play to a vegetarian, whatever their reasoning, It's just the "Apeing" of traditional meat products I find weird. 🤪