Cowes - Royal Yacht Squadron and Green

Isle of Wight

The Promenade and landing stage (RYS) at the

 north end of the parade, around 1910. (Valentine)

Cowes parade looking from the Royal Yacht Squadron

frontage to the Pier. There is now a Marina at this point. (Sweetman)

Looking up Castle Hill from the Parade,1910. (Kirk)

Looking down Castle Hill toward the Parade, again about 1910. (Valentine)

R.Y.S. Clubhouse 1906, note the steam launch alongside.

The Royal Yacht Squadron with Trinity Church behind, 1921

View from the end of the R.Y.S. landing stage towards the clubhouse, undated. (National)

A view over the Royal Yacht Squadron during the regatta, undated. (Sweetman)

An undated card of the Grantham Hotel next to the Green,  demolished in 1990 and replaced by an apartment block, like a number of other properties in this area.

Looking west across the Green, 1905. The supported tree is a 

weeping ash, know as the 'umbrella tree' reputedly planted in 1796 

(and still there!). There is a similar tree outside East Cowes Town Hall. (Wrench)

The Green, undated but probably from the 20's. The building 

on the right was the Grantham (see above) boathouse. (Nigh)

Cowes Green 1905.

An artists (Wimbush) view looking east from Cowes Green 

showing the Grantham Hotel and Boathouse, 

Trinity Church and the Royal Yacht Squadron. (Tuck)

Beech (card spelling!) and Green, early part of last century