Friday, June 14, 2013
WIGHT LIVING AN AIR raid warning had disturbed the quiet night at St Catherine’s Lighthouse in the early hours of June 1, 1943, but the next morning, a brilliant summer’s day, saw the three keepers as busy as usual on the site.
Friday, June 14, 2013
THIS ISLAND LIFE AS expected, mention of the Arreton Valley aardvark and the Wootton Creek anaconda has prompted further revelations about other mystery beasts said to have prowled on — or in this case, swum just off — the IW.
Friday, June 14, 2013
THE VIEW FROM HERE HOW is the mood in the Independent camp as they prepare for their second full council meeting next week under the leadership of Cllr Ian Stephens?
Friday, June 14, 2013
GARDENINGQUEEN Victoria’s consort would almost certainly have approved of the gardening being conducted at Osborne House at the moment — even if she may have not been amused.
Friday, June 14, 2013
PROPERTY OF THE WEEK AMID glorious countryside close to the coast in the beautiful Back of the Wight and with its own lovely leafy acreage is a superb property package centred around a charming Grade II listed manor house.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – June 14, 1913
ONE of the corporation swans at the canoe lake, in Ryde, built a nest in the bushes at the side of water.
Friday, June 14, 2013
LETTERS From Sam Turner, Sandown:
ONE Steve Beynon — one destroyer of the Island’s education system.
Friday, June 14, 2013
LETTERS From Tricia Merrifield, chairman of the IW Bridleways Group, Hillis Gate:>
LAST week’s article about Phillip Dyer’s very frightening experience of being knocked off his bicycle by a towed caravan with the driver being completely unaware, illustrates just how dangerous our narrow country lanes have become to all vulnerable users.
Friday, June 14, 2013
LETTERS From Karen Twine, Wootton Bridge:
I WOULD like to thank the Griffin family, of Briddlesford Farm, Wootton, for opening their farm to the public and showing us their pedigree Guernsey herd as part of the open farm event on Sunday.
Friday, June 14, 2013
LETTERS From Louis Fitzpatrick-Robertson, Newport:
WOULD the advocates of a bridge linking North and South islands care to suggest what the late IW should be called when the connection is made.
Friday, June 14, 2013
LETTERS From Michael Murphy, Shanklin:
I RECENTLY visited Ventnor cemetery, and it was obvious that the grass had not been cut for some time.
Friday, June 7, 2013
WIGHT LIVING THE delightful settlement of Mottistone is now a tiny hamlet but it has not always been this way.
Friday, June 7, 2013
NATURE NOTES FLEABANE is a rather unattractive name attached to a group of plants from the daisy family.
Friday, June 7, 2013
THIS ISLAND LIFE SOME of the Island’s animal sanctuaries can certainly teach the experts a thing or two when it comes to the art of self-promotion.
Friday, June 7, 2013
THE VIEW FROM HERE I AM, of course, sorry for the Sandown Bay students who studied The Caretaker, Harold Pinter’s dark play about two brothers and a tramp, only to discover there were no questions about this work in their AS-level exam.
Friday, June 7, 2013
GARDENING VALERIAN, whether it be red, pink, or the less common white, was a plant I well remember in my youth — growing in the crumbling mortar joints of old stone walls.
Friday, June 7, 2013
PROPERTY OF THE WEEKA COWES home with a view to the busy waters of The Solent comes with an inviting stretch of water of its own.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – June 7 1913
A THATCHED cottage close to the railway line and viaduct at Newbridge was destroyed in a fire.
Friday, June 7, 2013
ISLANDERS REUNITED From Peter and Mary French, 16 Cotman Road, Colchester, Essex CO3 4QL:
WE are searching for Mr Clark, an old workmate who we last saw in the Seventies or Eighties.
Friday, June 7, 2013
LETTERS From Cllr Chris Whitehouse, Totland:
IAN Pratt criticises the County Press for giving front page billing to problems with Island schools (CP, 31-05-13).