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On to GurnardIsle of Wight |
Old postcards are sometimes poorly produced and grainy, I've done my best to scan them. Please click thumbnails for full size picture. Dates are from the card or my estimate (where possible). The manufacturer of the card is shown in brackets (where available).
Moving west from the Green we head past Egypt Point towards Gurnard.
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Looking along Queen Road from the foot of Egypt Hill, Holmwood House was on the right. (Photochrome.) |
Looking east along the Esplanade, the lighthouse just visible on the left it at Egypt Point, the northernmost point of the Island. On the right is Egypt House, once home of the Baring family. (Photochrome.) |
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Gurnard, a small village to the west of Cowes, the card is undated but was probably taken during the first decade of the last century. (Mary Jones) |
Looking over Gurnard Green towards Gurnard Sailing Club (centre). (Dean) |
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| The shore at Gurnard, 1950's. (Dean) |
Another more recent card, showing the view over Gurnard Marsh looking west. (Dean) |
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Gurnard beach, off the marsh, 1950's. (Dean) |
An undated view across Gurnard Marsh, looking east. (Nigh) |
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| Gurnard looking west across the Marsh about 1930. (Sweetman) |
A more recent view, probably from the 1960's (Nigh) |
Continuing west we reach Thorness Bay.
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The entrance to the Towers Hotel, 1957. (Dean) |
A multiview card of the Towers Holiday Centre, probably from the 1960's. (Nigh) |
Freshwater | Totland | Alum Bay and the Needles | Yarmouth | Shalfleet | Newtown | Calbourne | Carisbrooke Castle | Newport and Carisbrooke | Cowes and Gurnard | Osborne House | Wootton & Fishbourne | Quarr & Binstead | Ryde | Seaview | Bembridge | Brading | Sandown | Shanklin | Godshill | Arreton Valley | Ventnor | St Lawrence and the Undercliff | St Catherine's Lighthouse's | Niton | Blackgang Chine | Blackgang and Chale | Brighstone and Shorwell | Mottistone to Compton
All postcards on this page are from my own collection.