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DVDs, videos and CDs with an Isle of Wight focus (Prices exclude P&P - call or e-mail for details).
Walk The Wight
DVD
£7.50
THE DVD of this year's record-breaking Walk The Wight is now available from The County Press Shop.
The specially-filmed DVD, like the event itself in aid of Newport's Earl Mountbatten Hospice, features more than an hour of footage of the walk that has become an Island institution, as well as the charity's biggest fund-raiser each year. Around 10,000 people took advantage of perfect walking conditions for this year's Walk The Wight, breaking previous records and enjoying a great day out amid some of the Island's more spectacular scenery.
Ghost Island
DVD
Based on the Ghost Island books
by Gay Baldwin
£12.95
GHOST Island, 'the world's most haunted island', is home to hundreds of ghosts, spirits, phantoms and poltergeists. There are haunted inns, manor houses - and even a haunted toilet. Then there's the ghostly mansion of Knighton Gorges, the Island's strangest and most haunted place, said to appear each New Year's Eve. Explore the darker side of the Isle of Wight in these haunting true tales and supernatural happenings. Discover some of the haunted places, meet people who have had real encounters with ghosts and hear them tell their stories.
Wight Ghost Investigates
Brading The Experience
DVD
£9.99
WightGhost Productions
BRADING The Experience, formerly Brading Waxworks, can claim to be one of the oldest townhouses on the Island. In the past it has been a temporary mortuary, a brew house and a coach house called the Crown Inn, before being established as a tourist attraction in 1964. During the time of Charles I's imprisonment at Carisbrooke Castle, a French ambassador named Louis de Rochefort, delivering a message to the king, was reputedly mudered there and legend has it that he will haunt the house until his body is returned to France. The Wight Ghost crew investigate over two nights on this 93-minute DVD (contains strong language).
Wight Ghost Investigates
The Isle of Wight Zoo
DVD
£9.99
WightGhost Productions
FOUNDED during the 1950s, the Isle of Wight Zoo at Sandown is now an established centre for wild animal management and conservation, housing tigers, lions, lemurs and many other exotic and endangered species. Also on the site, however, is the remains of an 1861 fort, itself built over a previous fort set up to defend the coast from the threat of French invasion. The ghost of a young soldier killed there in the 1880s while working on a cannon is said to still roam the remains of the battlements and underground tunnels. The Wight Ghost crew investigate on this 70-minute DVD (containing strong language).
Isle of Wight & The Solent From The Air
VHS - £12.99
DVD - £17.99
THIS unique 80-minute film provides an enthralling exploration of one of the most beautiful areas of Britain. The Island is a treasure trove of picturesque villages, spectacular cliffs, sandy beaches, rich farmlands and river valleys. There's a plethora of unspoilt scenery to enjoy as you journey through the geology and history of the Island, the Roman influence and the Island's many famous landmarks. The film also takes the viewer on a magical ride from Lymington to Portsmouth as the scale, historical heritage and maritime significance of one of the most famous waterways in the world is revealed. Excellent as a memento of a visit or to give a whole new perspective to resident Islanders.
The Isle of Wight in the Past narrated by Fred Dinenage
VHS - £12.95
DVD - £12.95
STEEPED in maritime tradition, the Island offers so much to so many with its diverse range of attractions and great natural beauty. Through fascinating archive footage, this 45-minute video looks back over the decades from as early as 1919. A trip around the Island in the 1950s filmed in colour shows steamers at Ryde Pier, period coaches, lots of local landmarks and ice cream on the beach. A Cowes regatta from the 1930s is also featured, together with paddle steamers which once linked the Island and the mainland. The final years of the Island's railway heyday, complete with its tank engines, is also shown in colour in a nostalgic journey through the past for Islanders and for anyone who has ever enjoyed a holiday on the Island.
The Saunders-Roe Princess Flying Boat Story
VHS - £17.50
DVD - £17.50
THIS video celebrates the engineering achievements of the Saunders-Roe Company and its team of employees and contractors/suppliers in designing, building and flying the world's largest all-metal flying boat, the Saunders-Roe SR45 Princess. August 22, 2002, marked 50 years since the first flight of the Princess took place from The Solent under the command of Geoffrey Tyson, the Saunders-Roe chief test pilot. Despite the Princess being at the pinnacle of large flying boat design, the world had changed by the time of the first flight and the prospects for operational use were bleak.