Feb 1, 20202 min read
Number 28 Cowes High Street - through the ages
The illustrations show Number 28 High Street in Cowes at various years going back in history. The first illustration is Wine Therapy, an...
Jan 29, 20201 min read
Number 109, High Street, Cowes - building history
109 High Street Cowes is currently the fantastic Shoreline, they sell gifts, greeting cards, as well as offering picture framing, trophy...
Jan 28, 20201 min read
Benzie Jewellers - a little history of number 61 Cowes High Street
This is Benzie, the wonderful famous international jewellers at Number 61, High Street, Cowes. The business has been at these premises...
Apr 2, 20191 min read
14 High Street, Sandown, Isle of Wight - Capital & Counties Bank / Lloyds Bank
This is Number 14 High Street, Sandown, Isle of Wight, once the premises of the Capital & Counties Bank. The C&C Bank had been in Sandown...
Mar 10, 20194 min read
43-45 High Street, Sandown, IOW - Villakin - TE Porters
This magnificent building is a recent watercolour commission. It shows the shop T.E.Porters as it looked around 1900, numbers 43 and 45...
Feb 19, 20191 min read
2 High Street, Sandown - a little history of Martin's Library
2 High Street, Sandown, for most of the 20th century, this was Martin’s Library. Martin’s Library was established in Sandown about 1878...
Jan 25, 20193 min read
Redferns, 41, 40 and 40a High Street, Cowes
This magnificent building is Victoria House, number 41 High Street Cowes, now the shop ‘Live Like This’. To the left are numbers 40 and...
Jan 18, 20193 min read
Blenheim House, 9 Birmingham Road, Cowes - a little history of Beken's pharmacy
This is a painting of 9 Birmingham Road, Cowes, also known as Blenheim House - how it looked around the early 1900s when it was Beken and...
Jan 13, 20191 min read
History of 109 High Street, Sandown, Isle of Wight
This is 109 High Street, Sandown. The earliest record of the building’s inhabitants is 1882 to at least 1888 when it was occupied by The...
Jan 12, 20191 min read
Masters Bakery, 16 Sandown High Street Isle of Wight - a little history
This is Number 16 High Street, Sandown. FH Masters is Frank Horatio Masters who ran a bakery/ catering business for many years....
Jan 9, 20191 min read
109 High Street, Sandown IOW - a history of the building - from Sandown High Street to New York
This is 109 High Street, Sandown. The earliest record of the building’s inhabitants is 1882 to at least 1888 when it was occupied by The...