The Mooragh estate was a rough wilderness when Ramsey Commissioners first bought it. However, plans were drawn up for it and the first stone of the North Promenade was laid - and the promenade was named - and the first sod of the Mooragh Park was cut by the Lieutenant-Governor Spencer Walpole on 11th August 1887.
\n\nWe look at the opening of a translation into Manx of The Wind in the Willows, a book of which Kenneth Grahame's original English version has far more of poetry about it than prose.
\n\nAs nyn giaull -
\nCOR MERCHED EDEYRNION - Dim ond meirch y mor
\nBILL CORLETT & PHIL GAWNE - Y ghraih my chree 's my stoyr
\nBAGAD CAP CAVAL
\nNICOLSON INSTITUTE GAELIC CHOIR - Foghnan ny h-Alba/Puirt e beul
\nRICHARD TRETHEWEY - Smoking chimneys
\nBAGAD KEMPER
\nELIANE PRONOST - An hani a garan
\nNA CASADAIGH & THE LENNON FAMILY - Peigin Leitir Mor
\nKEVRENN ALRE