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Colwell Bay, Isle Of Wight
Colwell Bay maps
Historic maps of Colwell Bay and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Colwell Bay maps
Historic map of Colwell Bay
Illustrated Victorian map of Isle Of Wight
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Colwell Bay books
Displaying 3 of 3 books about Colwell Bay and the local area. View all Colwell Bay books
Cowes Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
Isle of Wight Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Isle of Wight Living Memories
Paperback
£14
1 Colwell Bay photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Colwell Bay
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Isle Of Wight memories
In 1960, when I was 6, we moved into Longhalves, a detached house on the left of Hook Hill going up, and just on the brow of the hill. The road then was narrow and dangerous, and in about 1964 they took 3 - 4 yards off our front garden to widen the road and make a footpath. Opposite the main... [more]
Shared on 14 November 2008
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... [more]
Shared on 18 April 2008
My aunt and uncle ran the New Inn in the 1930s and 1940s, possibly before.
Their names were Patrick Huston and Annie Huston. Also living with them in the early 1940s were my grandmother, Mary Evans, and my Auntie Lou. I lived in Portsmouth and remember being sent by my parents at the outbreak of war in 1939 as they thought... [more]
Shared on 07 August 2009
My late mother told me that she was related to Miss White, daughter of the Rev. Richard Walton White. His daughter left the manor and or land to Captain Macpherson in 1911. Although we have no claims on this family, we have no first names of Miss White or Captain Macpherson's nephew for our family tree. Any historical history and or... [more]
Shared on 05 October 2006
I walked past these houses every day to and from school from 1956 to 1959 when my family lived at Marsh Green.
Shared on 10 May 2008
Our house is the second left and I was about 8 when this was taken. The field in front of the houses is now the site of the Methodist Chapel.
Shared on 10 May 2007
Me and my Mrs bought the ground floor to this building shown here 3 years ago.
Shared on 24 December 2009
Extracts From Colwell Bay & Isle Of Wight books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Colwell Bay, inspired by Frith photos.
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.
This is an extract from Isle of Wight Photographic Memories Pocket Album.
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Isle of Wight Photographic Memories
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.
This is an extract from Isle of Wight Photographic Memories.
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At one time, elegant Victorian terraced houses, which were built between l835 and l857, graced the Parade. Apart from the last two terraced houses, these were demolished in the 1930s. In their place the Osborne Court apartments were built in Art Deco style just before the Second World War; they were used as a naval base during the war. Almost next door is the Royal London Yacht Club, which was formed in London in 1878. Part of this... [more]
This is an extract from Cowes Town and City Memories.
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