(05-01-2016, 12:07 AM)Splashdown Wrote: Back to the Milntown Cottage issue. The name was used in 1963 when Tony Godfrey crashed there in the 250 race, and was the first person picked up by helicopter.
I have always used  "Milntown" as the actual cottage, the white one on the left hand side on the right hander. The next right after the "Glen Audlyn" jump, has always been known (in my circles) as the "right hander after Glen Audlyn".
The left hander before Milntown has of late been known as "Sky Hill", as Alfie Noakes correctly states, but I don't know for how long this name has been used.
I'll have to do a bit of work to see when "Milntown Cottage was first used, but I have never read of it in any pre WW2 reports.

We only called it Sky Hill back in the late 80's early 90's as a visible reference point because of the pony trekking sign on the right and being local I know that is where the hill is on the right - I don't recall hearing it mentioned too frequently, if I was asked to describe "Milntown" it would be the white cottage part of the circuit directly after the Sky Hill left. My Dad was born/lived in Ramsey and he calls the right after the jump Milntown Corner not as a racing name but as a local name when he was younger, another little bit of info is the playing fields in his day that were on the left on the approach to Schoolhouse were known locally as The Ponderosa, Dad used to bunk off school to watch the bikes and hide in the hedges at Ponderosa or up at Tower Bends haha. I'll have to ask him if he has any other local info.