Children playing in the street below Mona Terrace, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1932 (b/w photo)

On the back of this photograph John James Frowde writes, "Frederick St., Finch Road Backs and Mona Terrace above. The 'big garden' area of the early 'eighteen hundreds'. Flight of stone steps, centre, leading to Edward Lane. Mr. Leach's story re. the top three houses (right of steps) when they were thatched cottages. Northernmost dwellings then in that area. And only buildings then on the Big Garden. (re. derivation of the name Senna - Gardens front and back). Wife of man in top house a Cumberland woman. There is a village in Cumberland yclept Senna, so Mr. Leach found when looking up a Post Office directory on a matter of business. What more likely than that this woman came from there and called her cottage by the name. Like the 'Braddans', 'Greebas', 'Barrules', 'Snaefells' et alia all over the British Isles occupied by Manx exiles. There is no garden now in front or in rear. When Senna Road (Lane in my early days) was made, this is a likely reason for the naming of the new road - for which Mr. J. J. Kneen failed to trace the source. Mr. Budge, Town Surveyor, is a Cumberland man- ask if he knows the village 'Senna' in that county. And convey this information anyhow to Mr. J. J. K."