Ginger Hall, Isle of Man

Ginger Hall

The Ginger Hall Hotel, Sulby on the A3 Castletown to Ramsey Road looking towards the 20th Milestone and Sulby Bridge.
Coordinates 54°19′15.4″N 4°28′12.3″W / 54.320944°N 4.470083°WCoordinates: 54°19′15.4″N 4°28′12.3″W / 54.320944°N 4.470083°W
Location of Ginger Hall in Isle of Man

Ginger Hall, Isle of Man[1] is a road junction situated in the village of Sulby between the 20th Milestone and 21st Milestone on the Snaefell Mountain Course on the primary A3 Castletown to Ramsey Road, the secondary B9 Sulby Claddagh Road – Ny Claddagh and the tertiary Green Lane D11 Narrowdale Hill in the parish Lezayre in the Isle of Man.

The road junction is dominated by the Ginger Hall Hotel (previously The Scotch Tavern)[2] and the name originates from the original licensee who used to brew his own ginger beer on the site.[3] The Ginger Hall pre-dates 1818 and is possibly the oldest licensed premises after the The Brown Bobby (named after the famous racehorse North Brown Bobby) on Peel Road, Douglas that was demolished in 1938.[4]

The Ginger Hall[5] road junction was part of the Highland Course and Four Inch Course used for the Tourist Trophy automobile car races held in the Isle of Man between 1906 and 1922.[6] The Ginger Hall is now part of the Snaefell Mountain Course used since 1911 for the Isle of Man TT Races and 1923 for the Manx Grand Prix. Extensive road widening and road profiling occurred during the winter of 1953/54 at the 20th Milestone, Ginger Hall and Kerrowmoar by the Isle of Man Highway Board.

Sources

  1. ↑ An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Isle of Man page 64 by David T.Webber Revised by Frank Cowin and F.J.Radcliffe;- Editor Gordon N. Kniveton (1997) The Manx Experience ISBN 1-873120-25-7 "....A famous pub on the TT course. The building stands on the main road between Michael and Ramsey, near to Sulby Bridge...."
  2. ↑ Manx Inns – A Pub crawl through History page 11 by Suzanne Cubbon – Heron & Brealey Ltd (1998) Amulree Publications ISBN 0901508 01 03 – "....to be sold, the house in Lezayre, occupied under the name as the inn the past forty years under the Ginger Hall or the Scotch Tavern..."
  3. ↑ Isle of Man Pub and Brewery Guide page 18-19 by Andrew Jessop PMCS Publishing;- Nelson Press Ltd
  4. ↑ Manx Inns – A Pub crawl through History page 57-58 by Suzanne Cubbon – Heron & Brealey Ltd (1998) Amulree Publications ISBN 0901508 01 03
  5. ↑ TT 100 The Official Authorised History of the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Racing page 24 by Mick Duckworth (2007) Lily Publications Ltd ISBN 1 899602 67 4 – "....Ginger Hall is really nice. The Telegraph pole on the inside makes a really nice apex point. I turn in late and accelerate through. Then the road gets like a motorcross track and you go bump-bump-bump down to Kerrowmoar...." The Mountain Course. A lap of the legendary circuit accompanied by the record holder John McGuinness.
  6. ↑ TT Pioneers – Early Car Racing in the Isle of Man page 22 Robert Kelly, Mercury Asset Management (1996)(1st Edition) The Manx Experience, The Alden Press ISBN No 1 873120 61 3

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