(29-11-2014, 12:02 PM)c iom tt Wrote: I spent many a year in the Walpole Hotel!
Mick Boddice use to stay there, and it was a lively old place but a bit of a doss hole.
I seem to think it was knocked down about 1996?
Walpole street is still there, the old hotel site is wasteground being used as a carpark now.

I stayed at The Walpole when Joan and Alan Baird had it. They very kindly sponsored this complete journeyman no hoper for 2 Manx gp's and a TT, for which I was always very grateful.

Everyone else who stayed there was a star and I still don't know why they helped me. Some mighty nights were had and I still laugh at some of the stories to this day.

They went on to take The Mannin, I wonder what they're doing now?