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Quarr Abbey, c1875
Quarr Abbey, c1875 Ref: 8144
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Year: 1973
Lydia and Wendy
I worked in the big hotel in Sandown, and a couple of hotels on the very seafront with two girls from Binstead, what fun we had, laughter and tears went together. I've lost touch with them but would love to hear what they are up to now and where they live. I remember Browns boating lake in Sandown, and one of the hotel managers on the front named Ken, and Itl the chipl who worked in the kitchen. The stadd were a very happy lot, Lydia and Wendy were very good friends to me, Wendy's mother worked in a shoe shop in Ryde, they lived opposite each other in a close at Binstead in council houses. I also took holidays at Brambles Chine Holiday Camp when I was very young, and remember the rambles across the downs and walking to Freshwater, they were such happy carefree days. I've always thought what a pretty place the Isle of Wight is, also visits to Osbourne House. So please, Wendy and Lydia, if you read this get in touch with me, I have lived in Malta 21 years now, by the sea in St Pauls Bay. The name of the big hotel in Sandown where we all met was called the Sandringham. Last edited: 28/07/2008 15:48 by Patricia Hamilton |
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Youthful Pranks (in Binstead)! 1958 - 1962
I am a 67 year old British citizen and have lived for over 40 years as a rock musician in Germany. I went to Ryde School in the 60s. After I left I was lonely living in London and used come back to the island most weekends - to my friends in - wait for it! of COURSE....in Binstead. I used to stay at the parents of my schoolfriend Ian Squire, Mr & Mrs Holmes-White. Ian went to Australia later. Sometimes I stayed at Major Carleton's villa where us boys used to slip out in the night and have wild parties near the beach with the Au Pair girls from the villa. My friend Brian Read from Ryde had an old car - very old. He used to drive around in it with up to 9 passengers. It was a SMALL car! On one occasion we were caught by a bobby, not very difficult when we had two passengers riding on the foot boards on each side of the car - and 9 inside! The magistrate fined us all four pounds as far as I remember. After this we were described in the local paper as looking like the "Keystone Cops" on a car chase!! (Film comedians in the 1920s.) I loved Binstead but have never been back unfortunately. I've just got internet and can't sleep It's the middle of the night. If anybody knows Brian Read please get in touch. I've been trying to find him for years. With loving greetings to a lovely village which has many memories of my younger years - Simon John Hornsby, Germany. Last edited: 09/06/2008 10:25 by Simon Hornsby |
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 East Cowes, the Floating Bridge c1955 (ref: E139007) |
Year: 1961
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 Last edited: 10/09/2006 19:17 by Steve Clements |
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 Seaview, Pier Hotel 1918 (ref: 68262) |
Year: 1960
MY FIRST JOB
I worked at the Pier Hotel in the summer of 1960. It was my first job. I was a commis waiter ..didn't really like it at all...but I was billeted out at a nearby village. I had my first drunk drinking scrumpy mixed with cheap red wine with Italian waiters from the hotel in the pub in Seaview..an experience which brought me great suffering and required my taking the next day off work in order that I would not die ! I also was fortunate to meet a lovely Dutch young woman,Riet Berendsen, 4 years my senior, who was an au pair girl at the hotel. We kissed and held hands on the sea wall. We saw each other briefly in London after the summer but I was too immature for things to progress any further...oh to turn the clock back !! Posted: 28/01/2008 03:12 by Dylan Rivis |
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Grandad's war days and our family hols
My grandfather was stationed on the island "During the War"and was very friendly with a family from Arreton called Hendy. The mother's name was Lil and the father was affectionally called"Tit" (because he was quite small). After the war, my gramps and all the family visited Aunt Lil and Uncle Tit quite frequently. Tit grew his own veg in a back garden, I remember picking pea swads for him when I visited. They had a daughter called Ena (can't remember her husband's name) and a grandson called Ralph. Ralph, my mum said, worked for a garage somewhere in Sandown when he got older. The last address I have for Ena is at Arreton, near Newport, I.O.W. They were always very friendly and welcoming and were more like family than friends. Ena wrote to my gran in 1983 to say her father had passed away on March 8th, he was 91. I am thinking of revisiting the Island sometime this year (2008) and would like to contact anyone who can remember the family, perhaps Ralph himself, maybe, who knows? My grandfather was called William Banks (Bill) his wife was Agnes and their son was called Keith. He married Veronica (Vera) and had three girls, Joanne, Stephanie and Frances. (We are all from Bolton, Lancashire). I had fantastic holidays here and felt the place was magical.We did all the usual stuff, beach days and picnics up on the downs watching the planes, driving down the tree arched country lanes and visiting Blackgang chine, Godshill village and Carrisbrooke Castle, Alum Bay and hilly Ventnor. The evenings were balmy and star-filled with never-ending displays of fireflies swirling through the air. I've never seen them anywhere else in such abundance. I always remember the sand was so hot on the beach that you had to run from the surf's edge to your deck chair, or towel, so your feet didn't burn. My favourite place was Brown's boating lake, Sandown. On our later holidays we stayed in a guest house owned by Mr and Mrs Connolly in Sandown and Mr Connolly worked at Brown's so we had free boat use and an occasional ice cream too. My sister has visited friends on the Island in the last few years and says it is still quite unspoiled and quaint. I wonder if I have jogged anyone's memory of those war years, or of the late 60s and early 70s. Last edited: 05/03/2008 09:11 by Joanne Fisk |
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