The latest news from the Isle of Wight is that we have great hopes that the local team, Richard Hargreaves and Becky Block, will manage to get the bell installed in Yarmouth, on the North coast of the Island, just next to the historic wooden pier. Fingers crossed! The pier is just next to where […]
With grateful thanks to Sue Atkinson here is an impression of the bell to be installed to the West of the Rotunda (itself hiding a sewage pumping station). It isn't installed yet - it just looks like it..... Here's the view in the other direction (taken on a sunnier day).
A promising looking site is emerging in Ventnor. This is within the small harbour, against the harbour wall near the 'elbow' to the right of the photo above.
There is a real head of steam building for the new Isle of Wight bell to be in Ventnor, on the South Coast.The ideal location looks like being just south of the 'Rotunda' a circular building atop a pumping station, sandwiched between the town's beach and Ventnor's small harbour. The bell would be mounted among […]
The small town is over a thousand years old. The castle was built by Henry VIII as a gun emplacement to defend the Solent. Now it is the terminus for one of the ferry services to the island, and this, a relatively small yacht harbour, and tourism are its main raisons d’etre. Opened in 1876, […]
