Port Erin
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Oct 8, 2026
Craig TileyHOST
And when you lived there, Simon, I mean, how often were you travelling on the railways?
Simon ArtmiukPANELIST
When the trains were running, it was every weekend I'd do sort of Port Erin to Douglas on the steam train and the horse tram and then the electric railway up to Ramsey.
Simon ArtmiukPANELIST
And then I'd often go back down the West Coast via the bus.
Simon ArtmiukPANELIST
Yeah,
David KinlayHOST
Yes, indeed.
David KinlayHOST
And so the book is by Paul Quail, Lord Narradale, Mostly Haiku, twenty twenty-two to twenty twenty-four, and it's available at B- Bridge Bookshop in Port Erin, Ramsey, OMA in Ramsey, uh, Time Machine in Ramsey.
David KinlayHOST
I didn't know there was a Time Machine in Ramsey, but there you go.
David KinlayHOST
And also available shortly, uh, Manx National Heritage outlets at, um, Peel and in Douglas at the House of Manannan and, um, the museum, of course.
Reginald DixonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Having got off to a bright start, sit back now and relax while I play some of the music written by Noel Cowart for Bittersweet.
Reginald DixonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The card requesting this came from Marjorie Wormsley, late of Blackpool, now living in Port Erin, Isle of Man.
Reginald DixonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Damon CoxHOST
Thank you.
Beth EspeyHOST
Tonight we reach the final stop on our journey around the Isle of Man.
Beth EspeyHOST
Seven candidates competing for two seats in Rushen, a constituency which takes in Port Erin, Port St Mary and the parishes around Rushen.
Alex BrindleyHOST
And tonight's contest, uh, looks very different from the one five years ago.
Alex BrindleyHOST
Um, of the two MHKs representing Rushen when the House of Keys was dissolved, only Dr. Michelle Hayward is seeking reelection here.
Gary ChambersGUEST
Uh, thanks everybody for coming.
Gary ChambersGUEST
Uh, I'm Gary Chambers and I'm standing for Se- in September's election for, uh, Rushen as a member of the Lib Vannin.
Gary ChambersGUEST
Uh, also a Port Erin commissioner for the past year and a half, and, uh, believe that we're an underused, uh, part of the island down the south.
Gary ChambersGUEST
And, uh, I believe there were just many, many more problems that we can tackle while we're down there.
Amy GriffithsHOST
Today, I'm talking to Gary Chambers, who's standing for the Liberal Vannin Party in Rushen.
Amy GriffithsHOST
This is his first time standing in a general election, but he is currently a Port Erin commissioner.
Amy GriffithsHOST
So Gary, welcome, first of all, and I guess start off by just telling me a little bit about you, for those who don't know you yet.
Gary ChambersGUEST
Hi, Amy.
Gary ChambersGUEST
Thank you.
Gary ChambersGUEST
Um, as you, as you mentioned, I'm a Port Erin commissioner.
Gary ChambersGUEST
I've been doing it for about a year and a half now, and it's, uh, it's certainly opened my eyes about, um, local issues.
Gary ChambersGUEST
And, um, we, we have a, we have a little bit of, um, of a problem on the island where we, we, we just don't seem to be making the right decisions, um, all over.
KinleyGUEST
Because my eldest son today, he was out there up in the hills with his binoculars and...
KinleyGUEST
Lo and behold, no sooner had the peacock been removed from Port Erin off to pastures new, that another one has appeared.
KinleyGUEST
Not in Port Erin, but up on the hill, up on the Mull Hill.
KinleyGUEST
What do you think about that? The Mull Hill.
KinleyGUEST
We're not having any of that, are we? I
Phil GawneHOST
Uh, Blas Beg, a Manx taster workshop, and that's a free introductory Manx lesh- language workshops in all four corners of the island.
Phil GawneHOST
Uh, in Douglas at the Villa Marina Arcade, in Peel at St Patrick's Isle Suite, House of Manannan, and Port Erin, uh, in the Errin Art Centre, and Ramsey in the town hall.
Phil GawneHOST
That's 10:00 till 1:00 PM.
Phil GawneHOST
Reserve your place at learnmanx.com/cooie, the Blas Beg Manx taster workshops.
Richard HenthornGUEST
But, um, the islanders are specialized in, you know, sort of, um, technology-based or computer-based, uh, um, industries such as gaming and, uh, finance and insurance, et cetera.
Richard HenthornGUEST
But we can branch out into, into newer technologies and, uh, one of the things that I, that did come to mind and I did some research on was there are some, there are companies now in Northern Europe that are doing a lot of research into, into wave energy and, uh, tidal energy, and, uh, we could encourage a university department of one of these universities to come over, like the, the, uh, the, the Port Erin, uh, um, uh, marine biolog- uh, uh, lab down there.
Richard HenthornGUEST
We could, um, we could give them favorable terms to set up, um, uh, test tanks, et cetera, in order to test these tech-technologies and then, and put them on the north coast of the island round about the, the Point of Ayre, where they don't, they don't have any visible signs from above, uh, the water.
Richard HenthornGUEST
And, and see if we can develop those and become a, a, a center for, for that kind of energy 'cause we have a lot of wave energy and it doesn't just depend on when the wind blows.
Helen ShepherdGUEST
I don't want to slate Rushen commissioners at all, but they were so defensive when speaking about the housing stock.
Helen ShepherdGUEST
You know, they've got one of the oldest housing stocks on the island, and, um, they just, the, you know, their excuse was, "We haven't got enough money to put into these houses." But when you've got a whole constituency across Port Erin where the houses have not had maintenance and not had upkeep, uh, and people are living in those conditions, then you've got some very unhappy members of the public.
Helen ShepherdGUEST
So I think if those people were able to come together for a citizens assembly, um, you know, i- if, if housing's affecting them and talk about the struggles, that brings the people's point of view to commissioner level and also government level as well.
Helen ShepherdGUEST
And you take...
Helen ShepherdGUEST
... and things like that.
Phil GawneHOST
Um, and you, you mentioned there Rushen commissioners.
Phil GawneHOST
I presume you mean either Port Erin, of course-
Helen ShepherdGUEST
Uh, P- yeah, sorry, Port Erin commissioners, not Rushen-
Richard HenthorneGUEST
But, you know, small high-tech businesses and broadening our economy into different areas is a great idea.
Richard HenthorneGUEST
And I was interested in some developments in Northern Europe, in Holland, where they're doing some experiments on... tidal energy it's okay like a kite system that's ground anchored and anchored to the seabed so there's no nothing above the waterline um and they are going all the time it's not dependent on the wind the tide it goes in and goes out and it changes the direction and especially up around the north of the island point of air there's great opportunity for something like that to be trialed here and if we could get tied up with a european university pretty much like the uh the Marine Biological Center down at Port Erin where they had to come over and spend maybe a year of their study doing some experiments and we could make it attractive financially for them to come over and give them a unit at Jerby or somewhere where they could build tanks to test these things out and test out models and then take something of a larger scale and real and we could develop these kind of things.
Richard HenthorneGUEST
There's also actually been quite a lot of development wind energy, but it's the personal wind energy, as they call it, behind the meter, which is a vertical pole in your garden, which goes round and it generates an amount of electricity, which You can store and then use peak times, and that's a great technology coming through.
Richard HenthorneGUEST
We can do that kind of thing, and it also can work for our green credentials, and that's ours.