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DVDs and CDs with an Isle of Wight focus (Prices exclude P&P - call or e-mail for details).
Carisbrooke Castle
Timeline of 1,000 Years
DVD
£14.99
THE Isle of Wight's oldest and most striking fortress, Carisbrooke Castle has a rich and colourful history stretching across 1,000 years.
As early as 829AD, the Saxons had a stronghold on the site but it was William Fitz Osbern, a friend of William the Conqueror, who established a castle there.
The current stone castle, however, was begun in the reign of Henry I by Lord of the Isle Richard de Redvers to replace the original wooden structure and completed by his son, Baldwin, in 1136.
This DVD charts the trials and tribulations of this magnificent fortification, where Charles I was once imprisoned, through the ages, following its trials and tribulations through to the present, when it attracts thousands of tourists every year.
Going South
Celebrating 40 Years of Tube Trains
on the Isle of Wight
DVD
£12.67
LONDON Underground trains operating on the Isle of Wight? Yes, it's true.
From 1967, pre-Second World War stock from the underground has carried locals and holidaymakers on the Ryde-to-Shanklin line via another seaside resort, Sandown.
This film tells the fascinating story of the Underground trains on the Isle of Wight, but also delves deeply into the early London history of the three lines from which the age-defying stock emanated: the Piccadilly; the now-defunct Northern City; and - later - the Northern.
The early beginnings of the Undergound itself - the world's first underground - is also highlighted.
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.