Axon Metropole Mansions, Queen's Prom. Boarding J. T. Roberts 2, Metropole Mansions do. Boarding J. Breadner 3, Metropole Mansions, do Porter meets every steamer. Boarding R. Waltho 4, Metropole Mansions do. 2 Facing sea.
Trams pass every few min.
The 1904 photograph shows that J.P.Smith had taken over the adjacent Metropole. He was thoroughly trustworthy, obliging, and courteous, and was a great favourite with ail the visitors. The 1889 date probably corresponds to the start of his tenancy of the 'Waverley' and 'Havelock' 37 Loch Promenade from which he presumeably removed, along with the name, when the Metropole site opened. Peter Milne was later in conflict with the licensing authorities in 1907 . The whole block was requistioned during WW2 to form one of several internment camps in Douglas - it was surrounded by barbed wire from the promenade and adjacent buildings and used until 1944 to house Italian internees.