5053196 The \'Bruges\' house and the Wellington Assembly Rooms, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1932-34 (b/w photo) by Frowde, John James (1868-1946); Manx National Heritage (Isle of Man); (add.info.: On the back of this photograph John James Frowde writes, "The \'Bruges\' house & the Wellington Assembly Rooms in a new coat of whitewash, which I saw being administered the previous day. The Rev. W. T. Radcliffe, in a lecture on his early days, given in Thos. St. Chapel in 1886, (was in at it) said, "There were balls now and then, and the ladies attended in their sedan chairs." In the 18-thirties! Sedan chairs were museum pieces across the water then, but with the filthy, badly oil-lit streets, & Fort St. would be one venue of the fair ones, doubtless, & in the early morning hours, trooping down the stairs (still there) in their silks & satin slippers, sedan chairs would be desirable to convey them to their swanky homes on the S. Quay or in Shaw\'s Broogh."); by Manx National Heritage .