Geograph - photograph every grid square

I loved Ramsey: I loved everywhere in the Isle of Man, but I think Ramsey ticked all the Eyre Family boxes. The main town in the north, my sister's favourite part of the island, it still has that lovely homely feel that my own home town (Petersfield in Hampshire) is sadly losing. It is known as the island's agriculture town, which was my father's whole life. My mother loved the shops, of a type you sadly only get on islands now; the Isle of Wight for example. Named by the Norse as 'Wild Garlic River' in the past its harbours saw the shipping of livestock and seed. Being the most convenient harbour to England, Scotland, Ireland and Scandinavia, Ramsey saw a fair few armies just passing through on their way to somewhere else.

In 1865, Ramsey became a town and at that time was at the forefront of ship building, being the first shipyard to build an oil tanker known as 'The Jane'. The town does not need to fish for coompliments. It is also known as Royal Ramsey, due to a couple of royal visits. Not to mention those two other 'Points of Eyre, the Duchess of Petersfield and Lady Basher!