Fairy Ground, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1932 (b/w photo)

On the back of this photograph John James Frowde writes, "Fairy Ground. 'Bull's Head inn' with lamp. A. H. Curphey. Feb/33 Story told by old Mr Corlett (the cattle dealer) recently of the man who undertook (in Corlett's early days) to run from the Bull's Head Inn to Castle Mona & back, in a stipulated time, clad in nothing but his birthday suit; the guerdon being a quarter cask of ale. And he made the trip & won the prize. It was only after the sporting event that the then police got wind of it and took a hand. I have a clear recollection of the police force in the late seventies of last century. Slow moving, elderly mostly, inflated lumps of meat. Old Quine especially, whose belt sunk deep in the rotundity of his equator. Father of Mr Quine (still about, once in Dumbells' Bank, later with Levers the soap people, now retired."