Frances Coakley was billed as, ‘ Our Own Manx Notebook Editor’. She is a longstanding committee member and a popular speaker. Peel has long been known as ‘The Sunset City’, […]

PEEL HERITAGE TRUST – 30 years old, 1,000 years of heritage! 2019 sees the celebration of Peel Heritage Trust’s 30th birthday. Since its formation in 1989 it has gone from […]

Bill Quine opened the evening, standing in for our Chairman John Slater who had been seconded to attend another important meeting being held in Peel at the same time. Fortunately […]

by Bill Quine As a trust dedicated to Peel’s heritage, we realised, some years ago, that we had access to many photographs, artefacts and articles but no sound archive. Speech […]

by John Slater My word, this meeting was fascinating for its content and clear presentation of, what could have been, a complex topic. The cream on the cake was, what […]

report by John Slater On a day of fierce gales it was pleasing to see a good audience for what proved to be an outstanding speaker. Mike Southall had such […]

By John Slater Peel’s Secret Gardens is a non-competitive event held every two years since 1996. You wouldn’t think there were any more secrets to discover but there were and […]

report by John Slater What a wonderful wealth of fine Peel people there are for us to draw upon, many from distant places – in this instance, Dr Michael Teare […]

by John Slater. Barbara Greenwood’s account in her book, Melbourne Bound – From the Neb to the Yarra, is such a tale of such derring-do, that it is hard to […]

By John Slater What a very special evening this meeting of Peel Heritage Trust proved to be! When I walked in half an hour before the start, nearly every seat […]