No. 6 Seneschal Lane, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1932-34 (b/w photo)

On the back of this photograph John James Frowde writes, "All of personal interest, many done all in (that were overenlarged herein) are in the routes. Others have been replaced in routes by films taken later on that were sharp and clear - with Enid's camera. The Parade St. views are alright up to a point, but those that replaced them are definitely sharp and put into the series. The last of Swagg's house." Additional note: "This, No.6 Seneschal Lane and No.8, the cottage up the rise, were about the last houses to be demolished in this area, in the midwinter '34-'35. When the housebreakers tackled them the Cottage first, bugs were noticed therein, but Swagg's proved to be alive with them: 'millions of them', as the 'Examiner' phrased it. There would not be many over the entire area when the premises were in occupation, the majority of the houses were clean and well-looked after until the area was cleared of its inhabitants; and then the pests multiplied and, evidently, emigrated (as their houses began to be taken down), to premises still to remain standing - of which the above and No 4 Seneschal Lane, still inhabited, were the last survivors. The 'B[?flats?]' seemed to migrate by an uncanny instinct. Anyway, when the breakers tackled Swagg's, the house was alive with them; and early one morning (with sprayed petrol, I think, into the ground floor interior) the place was set alight and the bugs went west with all the timber contents of the house."