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Fisherman's Cottage
Shanklin
Wider View Sandown Bay - February 98
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A Few Aerial Shots
Kindly loaned by Malcolm Huddart, the copyright owner.
Since thumbnails of aerial shots would be totally meaningless,
please select from the descriptions to see the required image.
Thank you.

Binstead & Ryde (52K) with Binstead in foreground. Ryde golf course can be seen below middle left, and Ryde High school can just be picked out middle right.

Sandown (47K) - pier in foreground, Culver Cliff far right. The light diagonal stripe in the top left is the railway line.

Distant Bembridge (28K) with Culver Cliff in foreground.

Bembridge Airport (32K) - Bembridge harbour in background.

On top of Culver (37K) Old coastguard cottages, the Yarborough Monument and the Culver Haven Restaurant.

Sandown High School Area (44K) - two local schools and part of the Shanklin & Sandown Golf Club.

The Needles (25K) - viewed from the south. The curve of Alum Bay can be seen as can the mainland at the extreme top left of shot.

Ventnor (60K) - a few local landmarks are indicated, with Upper Ventnor visible top left.

Ryde Pier (40K) - with marina and a large part of the town.

Wootton Creek (43K) - a car ferry can just be seen docking at Fishbourne.

Golf Course, (41K) - Sandown airport with the Lake Safeway in the top left.

Newport (55K) - River Medina, "The Motorway", St George's bottom left.

Bembridge Harbour (50K) - viewed from the St. Helens side.

The Point that isn't (29K) - quite a few visitors have been fooled by this one, thinking that it's easy to walk along the shore from Sandown to Whitecliff Bay. Be warned.
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A Little Bit of Local History
Sandown Fire Brigade 1920 Sandown Esplanade Demonstration 25/8/26 (Pier top right) Sandown Esplanade February 1926 Sandown Library 1926
Eastcliff, Love Lane
Bembridge, after a fire on 25/4/32


Non-aerial Colour photos © 1997 / 98 Nick Jay

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