Carisbrooke, The Village c.1955
Photo ref:
C26007
Photo ref:
C26007
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Among the many monuments within the church is the tomb of Lady Dorothy Wadham, the sister of Queen Jane Seymour. The nearby epitaph to Charles Dixon, a local blacksmith, ends with the lines 'My fire-dried corpse here lies at rest, My soul, snake-like, soars to be blest'.
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A Selection of Memories from Carisbrooke
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Carisbrooke
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Priory pond, also known as Fletcher pond, was so called because the lane that ran up to the school was Fletcher Lane.
Me and my Mrs bought the ground floor to this building shown here 3 years ago.
Lived there for just one year. Linda Crossley
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 ...see more
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