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Local history - Sandown, Isle of Wight
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27 High Street, Sandown, IOW
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This is number 27 Sandown High Street which for about half a century was the premises of James Dore, a well-known photographer and watchmaker.
James was born in Sandown in 1854 and was the son of a baker and confectioner. According to iow.gov.uk, James junior was apprenticed to his brother-in-law FG Baker, a watchmaker and jeweller, and James took over the business in 1874.
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By the early 1900s he also added optician and owner of an optical lantern to his census entry and went on to become a renowned photographer exhibiting at the Royal Photographic Society. The IOW Heritage and Museum Service now own his glass lantern negative plates.
James devoted much of his life to public work on the Island and had held various district county posts, was a County Justice of the Peach, a County Alderman, had been Chairman of the Committee controlling the Mental Hospital of the IOW County Council, was the Superintendent of the Sandown Wesleyan Sunday school and had been leader of the Liberal Party in Sandown district for many years. He was also an original member of the town’s Fire Brigade, joining in 1879, he rose to the position of Chief Officer.
He married Ellen Jones in 1876 and later lived at Fernside, 30 Station Avenue, where he died at the age of 71 in 1925. James and Ellen did not have any children.
After Dore, the jewellery business was taken over by Kirman, you can still see the name ‘Kirmans’ in the mosaic tile at the entrance.
The shop in this illustration was a simple two story building, but the modern no 27 Sandown High Street, now Vanity Fayre gift shop has an additional 2nd story with ornate Victorian roof line, which was probably added around the early 1900s.
See http://connect.iow.nhs.uk/uploads/HealingArts/News_and_events/James_Dore_Photographer.pdf for a more indepth article on James Dore’s life.
This is number 27 Sandown High Street which for about half a century was the premises of James Dore, a well-known photographer and watchmaker.
James was born in Sandown in 1854 and was the son of a baker and confectioner. According to iow.gov.uk, James junior was apprenticed to his brother-in-law FG Baker, a watchmaker and jeweller, and James took over the business in 1874.
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By the early 1900s he also added optician and owner of an optical lantern to his census entry and went on to become a renowned photographer exhibiting at the Royal Photographic Society. The IOW Heritage and Museum Service now own his glass lantern negative plates.
James devoted much of his life to public work on the Island and had held various district county posts, was a County Justice of the Peach, a County Alderman, had been Chairman of the Committee controlling the Mental Hospital of the IOW County Council, was the Superintendent of the Sandown Wesleyan Sunday school and had been leader of the Liberal Party in Sandown district for many years. He was also an original member of the town’s Fire Brigade, joining in 1879, he rose to the position of Chief Officer.
He married Ellen Jones in 1876 and later lived at Fernside, 30 Station Avenue, where he died at the age of 71 in 1925. James and Ellen did not have any children.
After Dore, the jewellery business was taken over by Kirman, you can still see the name ‘Kirmans’ in the mosaic tile at the entrance.
The shop in this illustration was a simple two story building, but the modern no 27 Sandown High Street, now Vanity Fayre gift shop has an additional 2nd story with ornate Victorian roof line, which was probably added around the early 1900s.
See http://connect.iow.nhs.uk/uploads/HealingArts/News_and_events/James_Dore_Photographer.pdf for a more indepth article on James Dore’s life.
43-45 High Street, Sandown, IOW
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This magnificent building is a recent watercolour commission. It shows the shop T.E.Porters as it looked around 1900, numbers 43 and 45 High Street, Sandown, IOW.
This building stands on the site of a cottage once known as Sandham Cottage. The cottage was one of the first domestic buildings in Sandown and became the holiday home of the radical and rebellious politician and Mayor of London, John Wilkes, from around 1788. Wilkes loved the house with its sweeping views over Sandown Bay and called it his ‘Villakin’. He resided there until his death in December 1797, having made many alterations and gained much livestock including bantams, peacocks, Chinese pigs and guinea-foul. A blue plaque now marks the spot of his house, ’Site of ‘Vilakin’ occupied (1788-1798) by John Wilkes, M.P., Lord Mayor of London. 1774-75’’.
In 1841, Wilke’s Villa was offered for sale by Pittis auctioneers. The house had recently undergone a thorough repair, and the estate was divided into 4 lots: a cottage, the Villa, a kitchen garden and a building site with immediate frontage to the beach, suitable for a Marine Villa. At some point before the 1889, Wilke’s Villa, which stood which stood on the corner of Wilkes’s Road and the High Street was pulled down ‘to make way for modern improvements’. With the establishment of a railway between the main port of Ryde through to Sandown, Sandown became a popular seaside resort with a great many buildings erected throughout the Victorian era, which meant building plots were sought after.
The illustration shows the shop TE Porters at 43 High Street, and the sign on the shop is hard to read but mentions ‘Artists Repository, Carver, Gilder and Picture Frame Maker’, ‘Oil Paintings cleaned and restored. Engravings …. Gifts … photographic …. Picture frames’. They also sold fancy goods, toys, cards and games and stationery and had another shop in Shanklin.
Next door at number 45 you can just see Porter’s tobacconists shop which was the sole agent for Loewe and Co’s celebrated silver mounted briar pipes, agents for Oakes Bros and Cos cigars and cheroots, Muratti’s Cigarettes and was the largest stockist of pipes, walking sticks on the Island.
The two buildings were definitely in existence and occupied by Porter by 1889.
Thomas Edward Porter was born in 1843, and lived at Pyle Street, Newport. His father Thomas How was a cabinet maker and postman and Thomas Edward became an apprentice picture framer maker and guilder. In 1868 there was mention of T Porter, Carver & guilder at Wilkes’ Road, although in 1871, Thomas Edward lived at nearby Mellville Street. A year later, in 1872, he married Sabina Woods, the daughter of a farmer from Calbourne.
In 1881, Thomas, Sabina and son Edward (1879) lived at ‘Wilkes Hall’ which seems to have been on the corner of Wilkes Street and the High Street, Sandown. Thomas was a guilder employing one man, a boy and a woman, and living at the same address was also an assistant, servant and nurse. Porter was one of the Founders of Sandown Masonic Lodge established in 1880 and in 1881 the Lodge moved to ‘Bro Porter’s Rooms - known as Wilks Hall’, however by 1892, Bro Porter needed the rooms for family purposes and the Lodge moved to new premises on the High Street.
By 1891, their listed address was 43 & 45 High Street, and by then they had three children, Edward Thomas, Howard Howe and Dorothy Eva. Thomas was also running a tobacconist with the picture framing business, and also living at the address were 2 fancy repository assistants, a nurse and a general domestic servant. By 1901, son Douglas Richard had been born, and the family continued to live there until at least 1911, by which time eldest son Edward had moved elsewhere.
Thomas Edward died in 1923 aged 80 years, and Sabina also at age 80 in 1932, both whilst living at Bedwyn Lodge, Leed Street, Sandown.
Son eldest son Edward Thomas continued to work as a tobacconist and lived at Chandos, Carter Street, Sandown around 1911, with wife Winifred Alice and daughter Winifred Joan. By 1939 Edward and Winifred had moved to Rose Court, Station Avenue, Sandown where he managed the recently demolished Rivoli Cinema, daughter Winifred assisted as the cashier, and younger daughter Margaret Mary (by then married to George A Ward) also lived there. Edward Thomas died a year later aged 62. Wife Winifred Alice died in 1952.
By 1939 son Harold Howe was living at 4 Lead Street with a housekeeper. His profession was listed as tobacconist dealer.
Meanwhile in 1939 number 43 High Street was listed as vacant and number 45 continued to be a tobacconists, then run by Frank Ni Nicholls and Kate A Howard. Frank Nicholls was the son of a London photographer who had moved to Sandown, married on the Island and set up a photography business in the High Street by the 1880s. In the 1890s the family moved to Shanklin, but son Frank appears to have moved back to Sandown and ran the tobacconists at number 45.
Numbers 43 and 45 High Street have been occupied by Ladies Realm ladieswear fashion since the 1960s. You can read more about their history and see photos of how the building looks now, on their website.
This magnificent building is a recent watercolour commission. It shows the shop T.E.Porters as it looked around 1900, numbers 43 and 45 High Street, Sandown, IOW.
This building stands on the site of a cottage once known as Sandham Cottage. The cottage was one of the first domestic buildings in Sandown and became the holiday home of the radical and rebellious politician and Mayor of London, John Wilkes, from around 1788. Wilkes loved the house with its sweeping views over Sandown Bay and called it his ‘Villakin’. He resided there until his death in December 1797, having made many alterations and gained much livestock including bantams, peacocks, Chinese pigs and guinea-foul. A blue plaque now marks the spot of his house, ’Site of ‘Vilakin’ occupied (1788-1798) by John Wilkes, M.P., Lord Mayor of London. 1774-75’’.
In 1841, Wilke’s Villa was offered for sale by Pittis auctioneers. The house had recently undergone a thorough repair, and the estate was divided into 4 lots: a cottage, the Villa, a kitchen garden and a building site with immediate frontage to the beach, suitable for a Marine Villa. At some point before the 1889, Wilke’s Villa, which stood which stood on the corner of Wilkes’s Road and the High Street was pulled down ‘to make way for modern improvements’. With the establishment of a railway between the main port of Ryde through to Sandown, Sandown became a popular seaside resort with a great many buildings erected throughout the Victorian era, which meant building plots were sought after.
The illustration shows the shop TE Porters at 43 High Street, and the sign on the shop is hard to read but mentions ‘Artists Repository, Carver, Gilder and Picture Frame Maker’, ‘Oil Paintings cleaned and restored. Engravings …. Gifts … photographic …. Picture frames’. They also sold fancy goods, toys, cards and games and stationery and had another shop in Shanklin.
Next door at number 45 you can just see Porter’s tobacconists shop which was the sole agent for Loewe and Co’s celebrated silver mounted briar pipes, agents for Oakes Bros and Cos cigars and cheroots, Muratti’s Cigarettes and was the largest stockist of pipes, walking sticks on the Island.
The two buildings were definitely in existence and occupied by Porter by 1889.
Thomas Edward Porter was born in 1843, and lived at Pyle Street, Newport. His father Thomas How was a cabinet maker and postman and Thomas Edward became an apprentice picture framer maker and guilder. In 1868 there was mention of T Porter, Carver & guilder at Wilkes’ Road, although in 1871, Thomas Edward lived at nearby Mellville Street. A year later, in 1872, he married Sabina Woods, the daughter of a farmer from Calbourne.
In 1881, Thomas, Sabina and son Edward (1879) lived at ‘Wilkes Hall’ which seems to have been on the corner of Wilkes Street and the High Street, Sandown. Thomas was a guilder employing one man, a boy and a woman, and living at the same address was also an assistant, servant and nurse. Porter was one of the Founders of Sandown Masonic Lodge established in 1880 and in 1881 the Lodge moved to ‘Bro Porter’s Rooms - known as Wilks Hall’, however by 1892, Bro Porter needed the rooms for family purposes and the Lodge moved to new premises on the High Street.
By 1891, their listed address was 43 & 45 High Street, and by then they had three children, Edward Thomas, Howard Howe and Dorothy Eva. Thomas was also running a tobacconist with the picture framing business, and also living at the address were 2 fancy repository assistants, a nurse and a general domestic servant. By 1901, son Douglas Richard had been born, and the family continued to live there until at least 1911, by which time eldest son Edward had moved elsewhere.
Thomas Edward died in 1923 aged 80 years, and Sabina also at age 80 in 1932, both whilst living at Bedwyn Lodge, Leed Street, Sandown.
Son eldest son Edward Thomas continued to work as a tobacconist and lived at Chandos, Carter Street, Sandown around 1911, with wife Winifred Alice and daughter Winifred Joan. By 1939 Edward and Winifred had moved to Rose Court, Station Avenue, Sandown where he managed the recently demolished Rivoli Cinema, daughter Winifred assisted as the cashier, and younger daughter Margaret Mary (by then married to George A Ward) also lived there. Edward Thomas died a year later aged 62. Wife Winifred Alice died in 1952.
By 1939 son Harold Howe was living at 4 Lead Street with a housekeeper. His profession was listed as tobacconist dealer.
Meanwhile in 1939 number 43 High Street was listed as vacant and number 45 continued to be a tobacconists, then run by Frank Ni Nicholls and Kate A Howard. Frank Nicholls was the son of a London photographer who had moved to Sandown, married on the Island and set up a photography business in the High Street by the 1880s. In the 1890s the family moved to Shanklin, but son Frank appears to have moved back to Sandown and ran the tobacconists at number 45.
Numbers 43 and 45 High Street have been occupied by Ladies Realm ladieswear fashion since the 1960s. You can read more about their history and see photos of how the building looks now, on their website.
85 High Street, Sandown, IOW
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Over the years the building has seen various occupants initially as a furniture dealers (including Charles W Gould around 1898, Frank Morris from 1901, and Archibald Edgar Thomas from 1911) and later as a cafe (Rich and Collins in the 1940s, Penelope’s in the late 50’s and now Serenity’s)
Over the years the building has seen various occupants initially as a furniture dealers (including Charles W Gould around 1898, Frank Morris from 1901, and Archibald Edgar Thomas from 1911) and later as a cafe (Rich and Collins in the 1940s, Penelope’s in the late 50’s and now Serenity’s)
97-99 High Street, Sandown
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William John Board was born in Weymouth in 1873, son of a builder. By the age of 20, he had moved to Southampton where he was living at a boarding house, at Hanover Buildings, Regent Street. Like many of the other boarders, he worked as a drapers assistant but by 1897 he married Gertrude Kemp Andrews and within a year they both moved Sandown, Isle of Wight and had a son William D Board.
In 1901 they were living at 97 High Street, Sandown. The shop must have been a successful drapery as there were 8 young ladies boarding above the shop with the Boards, either working as milliners, drapers assistants or as domestic staff. By 1911 the shop had expanded to include 99 and 101 High Street and the Drapers had a daughter Gertrude Eileen.
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Number 101 High Street (not pictured) that the Boards had taken over had been rented by Henry Newton Beard a grocer, originally from Essex. Henry and his wife Mary had two children Sydney CH Beard and Ethel Winnie, sadly both children died young, Sydney was lost at war and Winnie died after a painful illness aged just 24. Soon after the Beards moved to 21 Fitzroy Street, and the Boards took over the premises.
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Boards draper continued to run at the premises until the 1960s, it is unclear whether who ran the business after William J’s death. It later became Bailey’s Department Stores with guest accommodation and nowadays nos 97 and 99 is JMP Partnership, a claims management company and number 101 (not pictured) is Ifix Local.
William John Board was born in Weymouth in 1873, son of a builder. By the age of 20, he had moved to Southampton where he was living at a boarding house, at Hanover Buildings, Regent Street. Like many of the other boarders, he worked as a drapers assistant but by 1897 he married Gertrude Kemp Andrews and within a year they both moved Sandown, Isle of Wight and had a son William D Board.
In 1901 they were living at 97 High Street, Sandown. The shop must have been a successful drapery as there were 8 young ladies boarding above the shop with the Boards, either working as milliners, drapers assistants or as domestic staff. By 1911 the shop had expanded to include 99 and 101 High Street and the Drapers had a daughter Gertrude Eileen.
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Number 101 High Street (not pictured) that the Boards had taken over had been rented by Henry Newton Beard a grocer, originally from Essex. Henry and his wife Mary had two children Sydney CH Beard and Ethel Winnie, sadly both children died young, Sydney was lost at war and Winnie died after a painful illness aged just 24. Soon after the Beards moved to 21 Fitzroy Street, and the Boards took over the premises.
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Boards draper continued to run at the premises until the 1960s, it is unclear whether who ran the business after William J’s death. It later became Bailey’s Department Stores with guest accommodation and nowadays nos 97 and 99 is JMP Partnership, a claims management company and number 101 (not pictured) is Ifix Local.
109 High Street, Sandown IOW
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The earliest record of the building’s inhabitants is 1882 to at least 1888 when it was occupied by The India and China Tea who sold various products including soap, marmalade, jams and teas.
By 1898, the shop had become a linen drapery run by Frederick William Compton. According to an article on isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk, the Comptons moved to Canada in 1910. Their daughter Violet (or Betty as she was later known) who had been born at the shop, later moved to New York where she appeared as a member of Ziegfeld Follies and later danced in Funny Face with Fred and Adele Astair. Frederick later moved back to the Island in the 1920s.
Around 1910 John Saunders, the next occupant at the shop, ran a gent’s and juvenile outfitters, working as a tailor, hosier, glover and selling ready-made clothing such as flannel suits, athletic shirts, pyjama suits, sleeping shirts, swimming costumes, ladies’ hose, ladies’ gloves, children’s socks, paddling drawers, Dent’s goves, Morely’s hosiery, and ‘boy’s navy serge knickers for seaside wear’ (which were priced at 1/11 ½!)
During the second world war, Percy Vialls had a boot and shoe dealers shop, and by 1957 the shop was a coach tours office for Moss Motor Tours, a bus and coach company that operated between 1921 and 1994. Today the shop is a hair salon, Salon 109.
The earliest record of the building’s inhabitants is 1882 to at least 1888 when it was occupied by The India and China Tea who sold various products including soap, marmalade, jams and teas.
By 1898, the shop had become a linen drapery run by Frederick William Compton. According to an article on isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk, the Comptons moved to Canada in 1910. Their daughter Violet (or Betty as she was later known) who had been born at the shop, later moved to New York where she appeared as a member of Ziegfeld Follies and later danced in Funny Face with Fred and Adele Astair. Frederick later moved back to the Island in the 1920s.
Around 1910 John Saunders, the next occupant at the shop, ran a gent’s and juvenile outfitters, working as a tailor, hosier, glover and selling ready-made clothing such as flannel suits, athletic shirts, pyjama suits, sleeping shirts, swimming costumes, ladies’ hose, ladies’ gloves, children’s socks, paddling drawers, Dent’s goves, Morely’s hosiery, and ‘boy’s navy serge knickers for seaside wear’ (which were priced at 1/11 ½!)
During the second world war, Percy Vialls had a boot and shoe dealers shop, and by 1957 the shop was a coach tours office for Moss Motor Tours, a bus and coach company that operated between 1921 and 1994. Today the shop is a hair salon, Salon 109.
119 High Street, Sandown
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This stunning building is the Sandown Free Library and was opened in Sandown High Street, IOW in 1905.
Money for the library was donated by Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish businessman who had migrated to the US as a child with his parents. Having worked his way up from a factory floor worker to owner of the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world (Carnegie Steel Company), he later devoted his life to philanthropy with a particular interest in local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research.
In 1903, the Sandown Urban Council approached Mr Carnegie for a loan to build a library. A loan of £2000 was offered, and after much discussion over location and necessity, a public poll was organised which concluded an overwhelming majority of approval by the people of Sandown, although not as much support from the people of Lake). The library was built on land donated by Mr Alexander Keller (builder of the Savoy Hotel) and was opened by Lord Alverstone (Lord Chief Justice of England) in 1905.
By 1906 there were 2,745 books available with an additional reference library, a ladies room had been opened, and fossils from around the Island (now housed at Dinosaur Isle) formed a geology collection.
Info here was taken from the excellent article on the library history at http://www.sandowntowncouncil.co.uk/_UserFiles/Files/History/Free%20Library%20Comined.pdf.
This stunning building is the Sandown Free Library and was opened in Sandown High Street, IOW in 1905.
Money for the library was donated by Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish businessman who had migrated to the US as a child with his parents. Having worked his way up from a factory floor worker to owner of the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world (Carnegie Steel Company), he later devoted his life to philanthropy with a particular interest in local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research.
In 1903, the Sandown Urban Council approached Mr Carnegie for a loan to build a library. A loan of £2000 was offered, and after much discussion over location and necessity, a public poll was organised which concluded an overwhelming majority of approval by the people of Sandown, although not as much support from the people of Lake). The library was built on land donated by Mr Alexander Keller (builder of the Savoy Hotel) and was opened by Lord Alverstone (Lord Chief Justice of England) in 1905.
By 1906 there were 2,745 books available with an additional reference library, a ladies room had been opened, and fossils from around the Island (now housed at Dinosaur Isle) formed a geology collection.
Info here was taken from the excellent article on the library history at http://www.sandowntowncouncil.co.uk/_UserFiles/Files/History/Free%20Library%20Comined.pdf.
2 High Street, Sandown
2 High Street, Sandown, which for most of the 20th century, was Martin’s Library.
Martin’s Library was established in Sandown about 1878 by William Beavan Martin. Another branch opened in Shanklin about 1886. The circulating library had a large and constant supply of books for all readers (over 4,000), London periodicals, and a special department of books for juvenile readers.
The store was also a pianoforte and music warehouse, with pianos (for sale, hire purchase and rental), together with American organs, violins, guitars, banjos with all accessories and sheet music.
Mr Martin also held a stock of general stationery, fancy goods, artists materials and was able to print all kinds of stationery and booklets.
At the time, Martin was hailed for his policy of half day closing on a Wednesday which allowed his assistants ‘a real half-holiday’, in 1894 he was believed to be the only tradesman in Sandown or Shanklin who did this, and customers were apparently in full support.
William Martin died in 1900 and both shops were later run by Wavell H Martin.
Martin’s Library was established in Sandown about 1878 by William Beavan Martin. Another branch opened in Shanklin about 1886. The circulating library had a large and constant supply of books for all readers (over 4,000), London periodicals, and a special department of books for juvenile readers.
The store was also a pianoforte and music warehouse, with pianos (for sale, hire purchase and rental), together with American organs, violins, guitars, banjos with all accessories and sheet music.
Mr Martin also held a stock of general stationery, fancy goods, artists materials and was able to print all kinds of stationery and booklets.
At the time, Martin was hailed for his policy of half day closing on a Wednesday which allowed his assistants ‘a real half-holiday’, in 1894 he was believed to be the only tradesman in Sandown or Shanklin who did this, and customers were apparently in full support.
William Martin died in 1900 and both shops were later run by Wavell H Martin.
14 High Street, Sandown
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 since at least 1882, but it is unclear exactly when this building was built.
The Capital & Counties bank was taken over by Lloyds Bank around 1918 and a Lloyds Branch remained in the premises for almost one hundred years until around 2016.
This marker pen sketch shows how Number 14 looked when it was decorated for the coronation of King George V in 1911.
The C&C Bank had been in Sandown since at least 1882, but it is unclear exactly when this building was built.
The Capital & Counties bank was taken over by Lloyds Bank around 1918 and a Lloyds Branch remained in the premises for almost one hundred years until around 2016.
This marker pen sketch shows how Number 14 looked when it was decorated for the coronation of King George V in 1911.
16 High Street, Sandown
FH Masters is Frank Horatio Masters who ran a bakery/ catering business for many years. Originally from Cambridge, Frank was married to Matilda Jane from Salisbury and they had two sons Frank Roy and Cyril Arthur whilst living in Sandown.
The bakery and cafe was extremely popular and ran from at least 1911 at no 16 High Street where the Masters family also lived.
Frank (Snr) died in 1943, and wife Matilda in 1940 whilst they lived a 60 Broadway. Their oldest son Frank Roy who had married Constance in 1918, died in 1934 aged just 40 leaving two sons Frank J and Kenneth R.
Their younger son Cyril Arthur managed the business which ran (presumably under Cyril or Franks son’s direction) as Masters Caterers until his death in 1960.
Number 16 High Street is now the Royal China.
The bakery and cafe was extremely popular and ran from at least 1911 at no 16 High Street where the Masters family also lived.
Frank (Snr) died in 1943, and wife Matilda in 1940 whilst they lived a 60 Broadway. Their oldest son Frank Roy who had married Constance in 1918, died in 1934 aged just 40 leaving two sons Frank J and Kenneth R.
Their younger son Cyril Arthur managed the business which ran (presumably under Cyril or Franks son’s direction) as Masters Caterers until his death in 1960.
Number 16 High Street is now the Royal China.
12a-12-10-8 High Street, Sandown
It looks like the shops numbers 8-10-12 were owned by Miss Lucy Harris until they were sold by the trustees of her estate in 1902. Lucy was a property owner, owning the shops, a detached residence known as Mahableshwur overlooking the sea, and two cottages Rose Cottage East and West. She lived at More Cottage, High Street with her sister and American nieces and later at New Road until she died in 1879.
12a High Street Sandown
Back in the late 1890s, there was No 12b (now Turkish delight). Old photos show a space or an alleyway and it looks as though the shop was built in the 1900s to match next door, no 12 Sandown News. There’s no history for shop 12b.
10-12 High Street, Sandown
No12 now the left side and No10 the right side of the newsagents was a drapery shop for over a hundred years. In 1898 the Sandown Drapery was managed by Herbert Bailey, in 1901 the manager was Edwin J Bolton. By 1911 the shop was taken over by Stanley A Webster who remained until at least the 1920s. In the 1950s, the shop split had split back into two separate shops with a tailors again at No 10.
8 High Street, Sandown
No 8 was a tobacconists back in 1898 ran by Henry Trinder. By 1901 the shop became a dairy ran by Alfred Wheeler, and by 1939 and right through to the 60s the shop was the confectioners RJ Rogers.
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