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Pktuu
POll.
September
9. 1939
26
A
Day
At
Douglas: In The Morning, You
Go
Fishing .
..
You usually
go
in a party from the house. You scramble on
to
a horse-drawn platform on wheels and are P!llled out into the sea
to the
boat. For a couple
of hours you think of little else except fishing..
Then you forget about them. By .the time you come back you've made friends. Your holiday has really started.
Afternoon: The Prom.
. . .
Some parade the promenade. Others survey
it
from the Colonnade. If you've found a
companion, the Colonnade
is
better.
. . . or
Douglas Head
There's nothing
in
the world for them but sea
and s.ky-and themselves. How they got there,
how they'll get back, doesn't matter.
The elders may be content to look on. Not so the
young folk. By the end of the first day, they are pairing '
off. There is the Dance Palais, and the Villa Marina
Gardens, with winding paths and
pools~
there's DouglaS .
Head where you can secure a niche on the rocks
if
you're lucky. And there's the night-warm and alive
with fairy lights, so that everyone stays out late and looks
for romance.
There are other attractions, too, of course, especially
on a Sunday. All the cafes and restaurants may remain
. open ,for the
full
24 .
hours, and cookshops, bakers
and dairies are open whenever you want them.
Cinemas are open on Sunday, and there's no
restii~on
on golf, tennis' or any other sport. The only places
that do not seem- to throw wide their doors on the
Sabbath are public houses. Every other day they remain
open from ten in the morning
till
eleven at night. But
on Sunday, they are closed. Since nearly every hotel
in the place is licensed, however, the thirsty man is
never lost. It's good beer, too, at Douglas. Away back
in
1874,
the
Manx
Parliament passed an Act declaring
"nb brewer shall use any ingredients or preparation
whatever for
or
as a substitute for malt, or sugar, or .
hops." For an offence against this law, the fine is
£300.
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, where the
fairground has its pitch; to hear .Florrie Ford at the
vast Derby Castle, where she has sung for the last
eleven summers; to dance at the Palace, largest dance