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Marks Corner maps
Historic maps of Marks Corner and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Marks Corner maps
Marks Corner photos
We have no photos of Marks Corner, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Gurnard| Cowes| Carisbrooke| Newport| Newtown| East Cowes| Whippingham| Shalfleet| Osborne House| Calbourne| Lepe| Wootton Bridge| Fishbourne| Arreton| Quarr Abbey| Shorwell| Calshot| Bucklers Hard| Brighstone| Mottistone| Newchurch| Beaulieu| Lee-On-The-Solent
Marks Corner area books
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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.
Noris Castle
This was the Red Funnel ship Noris Castle an ex tank landing craft.
Hell And High Water!
I worked in my Aunts ladies wear shop (Kays), and remember being flodded when heavy rain combined with high tide caused the shop to have water running through from back to the front with my friend Maureen and myself sweeping the ensuing water out of the front door. In those days the floor was bare board and it soon dried out. As it was summer we thought it was good fun and no harm was caused.
Special Ladies,Special Island.
My late father Donald Jack Baker was born at Cowes on the 18/8/1910, he would later become my father in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe) on the 20/6/1940. Through no fault of our father we children grew up in homes and were later fostered out. All through the years we received little parcels from our grandmother and great grandmother Eva Irene, and Emily Ada Baker nee Baggs. I have recently stood at their unmarked graves and wept for what could not be, how I would have loved to embrace them and thank them for all the kindness, and for the wonderful man who would become our father. At some stage my grandmother sent me a little disc for a neck chain, it had a little triangular flag on it and I understood from my father that this was the emblem of one of the yacht clubs on the island, I lost it in chicken litter and wept for months. Our father never returned to the island, but the island should know of... Read more
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
Our Cottage in Carisbrooke
Lived there for just one year. Linda Crossley
This is Now my House!
Me and my Mrs bought the ground floor to this building shown here 3 years ago.
