A Visit to the Isle of Wight
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2020
- A Yank in Sussex visits the Isle of Wight! I’ve always wanted to visit this mystic isle and now was my opportunity! The Isle of Wight is not part of Sussex, but as I’ve suggested in my channel intro, I do visit other parts of the British Isles from time to time, and I’ll be posting videos about these other places as well.
The British Bride and I took the ferry from Lymington to Yarmouth, and made a half circuit around the island. We stopped at Alum, Freshwater and Compton Bays, made a brief visit to the seafront at Ventnor, and then ate a late lunch at the Crab Inn, in Shanklin. We would like to have stayed longer, but the ferry back wasn’t going to wait for us. And we hadn’t brought sleeping bags and a tent. Oh, well!
In this video I reference my earlier video on Shoreham Fort, which can be found here: • Shoreham Fort
I used a brief clip of the MonaLisa Twins singing the Beatles' song, “When I’m 64”, so here's a link to their full video: • When I'm Sixty-Four - ...
Enjoyed this very much. Thanks
Another charming video from this channel.
A well researched and enjoyable film. The Isle of Wight was until 1974 an integral part of Hampshire.
Born and bred on the Island in Newport, just down road from the Castle as kids in the late 60s Carisbrooke Castle was our play ground use to climb over the walls at the back and play army's, until chased back the way we come in over the wall by the caretaker
Lymington. Pronounced Limington
Pipe Line Under The Ocean. 3 inch steel pipe, formerly used to build bridges, manufactured at Tilbury in a purpose built factory as a single unbroken length, laid between IOW and Cherburg.
There was also a land network of pipes bringing the oil from West Coast Docks to Pluto. Still in use today, they were recently sold to a Spanish company.
Love this series. As a resident of Sussex for the first 47 years of my life, IOW was a regular haunt both for work and pleasure.
Shoreham Airport, to Bembridge or Sandown, with my Piper Archer and friends for lunchtime jaunts.
Bembridge, Cowes, Newport, Newtown, Yarmouth, Lymington, all regular destinations with ship, sailing yacht, fishing boat, Hovercraft, or ferry, (including the old steamers).
Plenty to do on IOW, you just need more time..
Thanks for the correction on Lymington's pronunciation! And the additional info!
Yes, we are hoping to spend some more time on IOW at some point.
Loved your channel trailer, by the way! As I believe I mentioned in my IOW video, I'm a military equipment enthusiast. Now subscribed to your channel!
I'm not sure you are correct regarding a threat of invasion by France in the 1850s. Certainly the British became very jumpy at the thought that Napoleon lll was modernising the French navy and became decidedly alarmed to see that French naval ships technologically outstripped British ones. It was in response to this French build-up of naval power that London decided to build the Palmerston forts (or follies as some called them), but in fact Napoleon lll was a strong ally of Britain's and aligned his country's foreign and military policies with those of Britain. Good job because in 1870 he lost his throne and depended on his good relations with Queen Victoria to grant him exile in England.
I agree, but national leaders must always keep contingency plans up to date. The French had been the enemy in British memory, and suspicions remained. One historical example of what could have happened can be seen in what actually happened between Germany and the USSR.. Stalin thought Hitler was his ally, and failed to take proper precautions in case Hitler was just as big a liar as Stalin was himself. He paid for that mistake.
I served for a time in the US Army, and an important principle that I was taught was to expect the unexpected.
The fears that resulted in the Palmerston forts (and the earlier defensive measures, such as the Martello towers) were in the end groundless, but in the doubts about one's supposed allies such measures have some validity.
The Seven Wonders of the Isle Of White:
Needles you can’t thread…
Ryde where you walk…
Newport you can’t bottle…
Freshwater you can’t drink…
Cowes you can’t milk…
Lake where there’s no water…
Newchurch that’s old…
The Bride's late husband wasn't a Southdown "gricer" (Green and Cream buses, plain green later on), was he? (I ask because I worked 43 years for that firm and it's successors!)
Blackgang Chine was the well known one to me in childhood, though that may be because the locals so thoroughly embraced the principle of attracting adult patronage via their children! In my days at Alum Bay I recall alarming my poor parents by climbing the cliffs to collect my own sands...one or two of the shades could only be collected from near the top.
There's a superb Dinosaur Museum at Sandown, which is well worth a visit, though I understand it can get very crowded with children at holiday times...also the Isle of Wight Steam Railway is generally worth a visit. When I was a child all the remaining Island Railway, (a tad more extensive than now but not what it was in Victorian times), used really old locos and coaches - it used to be said the island lines never ever received a new loco, wagon or carriage, just the mainland's cast-offs...certainly the remaining "Island Line" running from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin via Smallbrook (connection to Steam Railway), Brading, Sandown and Lake seems to conform to this tradition...Londoners of a certain age would recognise these trains.(Edit - I just learned they're getting some "new" trains next year - these date only from 1980, as opposed to 1938!)
You seem to have managed an awful lot in your visit...I went across myself with one of my daughters, her husband and three children not too long ago, and we didn't cover the distance you did - you must've started really early...we went over on the Portsmouth-Ryde Red Funnel line though, and of course with youngsters there's no hurrying them first thing in the morning.
Cheers
Dave
Actually, he did work for Southdown for a time! I'm not sure when this was. He finished his career with Compass.
In the video I suggest that Shanklin Chine is the most famous because that is the one that's the most likely to pop up when one Bings/Googles the words "wight chine". As for accomplishing a lot, we didn't start out extremely early. But you're right, young children can delay things dramatically!
@@SussexYank I have some knowledge of Compass and Chris Chatfield, the proprietor too...perhaps I ought to come clean and say my role was planning and scheduling Southdown/Stagecoach South bus services (with varying degrees of commercial oversight down the years) and as such I got to know folk from a number of companies at many levels...I'm very glad indeed to be retired, but sometimes do miss the people...
Excellent video. Short and sweet. It was quite right to visit the Isle of Wight .
Portsmouth Ryde ferry is not Red Funnel, they run Southampton to East Cowes Ryde Portsmouth are Wightlink as are Fishbourne Portsmouth and Yarmouth Lymington
The most famous Chine is Black gang a Smugglers One It has a brilliant museum, if you go back stay a while & visit Osbourn House it will take a day Queen Victoria's Italianate Palace where she Died & Carisbrook Castle where King Charles 1st was Imprisoned & tried to escape but got stuck in the window?? IT also has a novel well that it's water is drawn up using a wheel driven by a Donkey,!!