Poster of Villages By The Sea - Season 3 - Episode 10 - Laxey

Villages By The Sea - Season 3 - Laxey (Episode 10)

Plot: Situated on the eastern coast of the Isle of Man, the village of Laxey is known today as a tourist destination, but as archaeologist Ben Robinson finds out, it wasn’t the beaches and the mountains that attracted Victorian tourists, but an engineering marvel - the biggest waterwheel in the world. Ben meets local resident Matthew Boyd who is repairing and restoring the 22-metre-wide great wheel and finds out how it transformed this small mining community to one of the most successful in the British Isles
Episode Aired On:
Thursday, October 6 2022
1 year ago