current activities and past achievements

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Current Activities and Past Achievements of the Trust

Transfer of Peel City Guardian to Peel Heritage Trust
10 April 2004 saw the publication of the first relaunched edition of the Peel City Guardian. In the paper, John Slater says:

"When Ian Faulds kindly offered the title to the Trust, we were both delighted and alarmed. The delight was obvious, because Peel and the West have long been isolated from the rest of the Island, particularly since our rail link to the national steam and electric system was removed. This isolation has been increasingly reflected in the existing press, being the first to have its local news reduced to part of one page in the principle all-island newspaper.

The alarm arose because of our concerns at our ability to produce a worthwhile paper, given our other responsibilities and commitments. However highly qualified people from the original paper have joined us with great enthusiasm. This has protected the title from being lost to some corporate monolith and will help to restore Peel and the West to its rightful place in Island affairs.

Publication will probably be quarterly for a start, but this can change. All it needs is your input of articles, photographs, advertisements and readership."

Contact the editor on 842910 or email peelcityguardian@manx.net

PHT scrutinises and comments where appropriate on all planning applications relating to Peel in accordance with the aims of the Trust.

Planning applications can be viewed at the Town Hall. A commentary on recent applications appears in the members' newsletter twice yearly.
More on planning and the Conservation Area

Please send PHT your views on heritage issues of local interest, or offer your help or suggestions for any of our projects here.

Buildings we have helped to save include:

the cottages 7 & 9 Duke Street,

The Brickworks Office now the home of the Manx Transport Museum

the Christian Street Methodist Church (to be converted into apartments)

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There are very few registered buildings in Peel. They are:

The Philip Christian Centre,
The Foundry, East Quay,
5 - 9 Charles Street and
1 - 11 Queen Street,
The Kipper Yard, Mill Road and
The Cathedral.

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Centenary Centre

In June 2003 the Trust donated £1000 to the new Centenary Centre, an important new venture for Peel in the arts. The donation is in support of our aims both to help in the development of the amenities of Peel and restoration of its important buildings. Find out more at the Centenary Centre website.


Centenary Hall, March 2003. Below: one year later

War memorial on Peel Hill

Every year on 11th November the
Chairman of the Trust lays a wreath on the stone memorial on the side of Peel Hill in memory of the servicemen from Peel who died in the 2nd World War.

This monument was jointly commissioned by the Peel Royal British Legion and the Trust in 1995. The Peel Town Commissioners have now installed a hand rail to aid access up the steep steps. We have also asked the Forestry Board if they could look into the health of the 25 trees, as one or two look as if they need replacing.

Railway Monument

This display commemorates the first passenger railway on the Island. It includes the original stone water tower next to the former Mill Road level crossing. The exhibit includes a short length of track, level crossing gates, signal (previously used at Lezayre on the Ramsey Line), signal and the body of a coach built in 1873. Work has progressed well on the railway platform and the original lamp is now in place. Please don't be shy at offering help. Call Sam on 842448 or offer help here. Next comes the work on the original coach.

Photo Vic bates

Peel School

In keeping with the Trust's policy of preserving the history of the town wherever possible, the committee recently donated funds to the restoration of the old harbour ferry, which is in the playground of Clothworkers School. The photo from the Leece Museum collection shows the ferry in action.

Other work with the school has included work on the school bell, and exhibitions in the House of Mannanan.

Photo Leece Museum


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