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Shiaght Laa 19th August 2021

Shiaght Laa

Thursday, 19 August 2021 - 25 minutes

We visit the bell-tower of St Thomas's Church in Douglas in the company of Judith Ley and Charles Guard as tower captain Edwin Creer talks about the carillon system there played with the Ellacombe apparatus, which celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2021.

The Snaefell Mountain Railway was opened on 21st August 1895, and we hear from Andrew Scarffe about its history and a description of the day itself.

Then it's over the mountains from Laxey to Peel, and Peter Jones tells us about Cycle 360's Corrin's Folly Challenge, taking place on 22nd August, including a tough ascent from the Coastguard Cottages at Knockaloe Beg, up to Corrin's Tower. 

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