Main Street c1955, Carisbrooke
Main Street c1955, Carisbrooke Ref: C26032
Memories of Main Street c1955, Carisbrooke
Our Cottage in Carisbrooke
Lived there for just one year. Linda Crossley
Carisbrooke & local memories
Read and share memories of Carisbrooke and Isle of Wight inspired by Frith photos.
Fletcher Pond
Priory pond, also known as Fletcher pond, was so called because the lane that ran up to the school was Fletcher Lane.
This is Now my House!
Me and my Mrs bought the ground floor to this building shown here 3 years ago.
Fletchers Pond
I first used to cycle to this school - which was split between Newport Priory Boys' Secondary Modern School and Carisbrooke Grammar School - in 1961. The long, low building to the left of the picture was the Priory Boys' School, the taller building to the right was the Grammar.
Every day I cycled from my home in Clatterford Road, round the back of St Mary's Church, past Fletcher's Pond, and then down the track you can see in the photo to the school. The track crossed the old railway line from Newport to Freshwater just about where the first hedge line is, and Carisbrooke Station was to the right, out of shot. I only remember it as rubble, because the line was closed before I went to the school, and I think there was a fire at the station, but I may be wrong. Anyway, there was nothing much left.
I remember the school was set on several levels with a gymnasium at one end, and the canteen at... Read more
