The old photograph was found in a book entitled 'Ramsey - A Collection of Images Through the Years' by Sue Woolley & Miles Cowsill published by Lily Publications (ISBN 978-1-907945-43-4). In the book the legend below the photograph reads:
Mona Street, possibly 1895 after the 'Big Snow'. Note the Billiard Hall on the right.
Today the warehouse on the left still dominates the street, although there have been some alterations. The Billiards Hall mentioned above is no longer in operation.
This part of Ramsey has changed very little since the time of the old photograph save for the cars parked on the street, the overhead wires and the lamp standards.
As the presence of the warehouse suggests Mona Street is in the harbour area of the town and the oldest part of the town which is centred on the harbour. On the modern photographs the quayside is where the blue shipping container lorry is parked.
The name Mona has a long association with the Island and the oldest known reference to the Island calls it Mona, in Latin (Julius Caesar, 54 BC); in the 1st century CE, Pliny the Elder records it as Monapia or Monabia, and Ptolemy (2nd century) as Monœda (M??a??da, Monaoida) or M??a???a (Monarina), in Koine Greek. Later Latin references have Mevania or Mænavia (Orosius, 416 CE), and Eubonia or Eumonia by Irish writers. It is found in the Sagas of Icelanders as Mön.
The name is probably cognate with the Welsh name of the island of Anglesey, Ynys Môn, usually derived from a Celtic word for 'mountain' (reflected in Welsh mynydd, Breton menez, and Scottish Gaelic monadh), from a Proto-Celtic *moniyos.
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