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Yarmouth maps
Historic maps of Yarmouth and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Yarmouth maps
Historic map of Yarmouth
Illustrated Victorian map of Isle Of Wight
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Yarmouth books
Displaying 3 of 3 books about Yarmouth and the local area. View all Yarmouth books
Cowes Town and City Memories
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Isle of Wight Photographic Memories
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Isle of Wight Living Memories
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11 Yarmouth photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Yarmouth
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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
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 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
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... [more]
Shared on 17 February 2009
Extracts From Yarmouth & Isle Of Wight books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Yarmouth, inspired by Frith photos.
Isle of Wight Photographic Memories
High Street c1955 Wootton has one of the oldest churches on the Isle of Wight, being built originally by the Lisle family who took their name - De L'ile - from their island residence.
This is an extract from Isle of Wight Photographic Memories.
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Yarmouth Pier opened in 1876, and was built out of wood, a common material for the less elaborate piers. Ferries used to call, but from the 1930s they moved to a nearby slipway - the ferry to Lymington can be seen in the photograph. Excursions bring visitors to this day, with the pier benefiting from an extensive rebuild in the 1980s... [more]
This is an extract from 50 Classics - Piers.
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Isle of Wight Photographic Memories Pocket Album
Yarmouth's pier is functional rather than decorative, a place to fish or simply to sit and watch the mainland ferries. It was built originally as a landing stage for local boats and ships.
This is an extract from Isle of Wight Photographic Memories Pocket Album.
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