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Mountfield Caravan Park
My great uncle Frank and his wife Fan Sampson and their partner Chip Wright owned this park then. My grandfather Bert Sampson helped out there too. We used to come for family holidays from our home in London. I loved it. The Island was magical. I never wanted to go home. We visited all our family and had great holidays. There was a big house there where the family lived. I think it is still there. There was a little shop full of groceries and holiday must-haves. My first place to go. There was a playground and a sandpit too. I never understood why I loved the Island so much, then I traced my family tree in later years and found ...read more here
Contributed by Dawn sampson
Isle Of Wight memories
Change of use.
The building on the left became an amusement arcade in the early 1950s and then a dental surgery. Later it was demolished and replaced by a new building of flats and a new HQ related to Cowes week which was opened by Prince Philip in 2005.
A memory of Cowes contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Going to School
I have lived in Australia now for over 40 years. I still have very fond memories of my walk from Grenville Close to West Cowes High school as a 13yr old. The floating bridge was where I had my first smoke and my first kiss!!!! How I miss East Cowes and its natural beauty, if you were at West Cowes High school in 1961 - 1964 drop me a line. clemo10@iprimus.com.au
A memory of East Cowes contributed by Steve Clements
Summer Holidays
Many of my childhood summer holidays were spent at Sandown. We usually stayed at Mrs. Woodnutt's hotel in Carter Street. Mr. Woodnutt hired out the deck chairs on Sandown Beach. He also kept ferrets and I was allowed to go and help him look after them. One of our family's favourite places was the miniature golf course pictured. It was called Brown's as was the canoe lake next door. Browns made the most delicious ice cream, very welcome after following the grown-ups around the pitch and putt course. Oh the joy when I was deemed old enough to have a putter, ball and score card of my own!
A memory of Sandown contributed by Eileen Hammond
Extracts From Norton & Isle Of Wight books
There are few scenes on the Isle of Wight more captivating than
Yarmouth harbour on a busy sailing day. Boats of the Solent Yacht Club
often set out from here, and vessels of all descriptions seek shelter from
the channel gales.
An extract from from"Isle of Wight Photographic Memories Pocket Album".
Colwell Bay, just west of Yarmouth, has a good mile of
sand sheltered by the low cliffs behind. Albert Fort, on
the headland at one end of the bay, was built to guard
the strategically important waters of the Solent.
An extract from from"Isle of Wight Photographic Memories Pocket Album".
The two Cowes, situated on the west and east banks of the River Medina, are
famous throughout the world as a centre for yachting and as the home port of
the Royal Yacht Squadron. Many visitors gain their first impressions of the Isle
of Wight as they land by ferry from Southampton.
An extract from from"Isle of Wight Photographic Memories Pocket Album".
This panoramic view over Ventnor
gives an idea of the steepness of the
town. As one Victorian commented,
‘nature never meant herself here to
be laid out in streets, and eligible
plots of building land have to be
taken as they can be found on the
steep slopes’.
An extract from from"Isle of Wight Photographic Memories Pocket Album".
Whippingham village lies close to
Osborne House, and Victoria’s consort
Prince Albert had a hand in the
extraordinary design of the church.
In the churchyard lie the remains of
many of the Queen’s servants, their
memorials raised at her expense.
An extract from from"Isle of Wight Photographic Memories Pocket Album".