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Compton, Brook, Hulverstone
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Mottistone
Isle of Wight
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Old postcards are sometimes
poorly produced and grainy, I've done my best to scan them. Please click thumbnails for full size picture.
Dates are from the card or my estimate (where possible). The manufacturer of the
card is shown in brackets (where available).
This page covers the area eastwards from Freshwater Bay, Isle
of Wight to Brook together with the inland villages of Hulverstone and
Mottistone.

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Looking east across
Compton Bay, 1956. This area is liable
to subsidence, the road just to the
left has recently
been reinforced at considerable cost.
(Merwood)
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Compton Bay,
looking towards Freshwater Bay. The chalets on the
left were known as the
'Timber Bungalows'. These have now fallen
into the sea, as has much of the
land shown in the foreground. (Dean) |
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Compton Chine dated about
1910. This is just before where the white
cliffs start on the picture
opposite. It has now completely eroded. |
An undated card, probably
from around the 1950's of Brooke church.
(Baker)
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A picture, rather than a
postcard of Brooke lifeboat.
Undated, but from the early part of the
century. |
Brook Bay, around 1950.
(Dean)
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Brook House, built in
about 1780, although on the site of an old
14th century manor house. The
lake has been removed. Dated 1907.
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Hulverstone village from
a card dated 1906.
At the bottom of the road is the Sun Inn.
(Gubbins) |
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Mottistone Manor,
the oldest part of this dates from the 15th
century.
It is now in the care of the National Trust.
(Dixon)
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Mottistone Manor gateway,
undated. |
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Mottistone Church about 1910
(Peacock)
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The Longstone at Mottistone Down, probably
from the 1930's. This 13 foot stone is a probable remnant of a Neolithic
long barrow.
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Freshwater
Brighstone and
Shorwell
The
Seely Family and their Island homes (Brook House and Mottistone Manor)
Freshwater
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Totland |
Alum
Bay and the Needles |
Yarmouth
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Shalfleet
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Newtown |
Calbourne
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Carisbrooke
Castle |
Newport
and Carisbrooke |
Cowes
and Gurnard |
Osborne
House |
Wootton,
Fishbourne and Quarr |
Ryde
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Seaview |
Bembridge
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Brading
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Sandown |
Shanklin
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Godshill
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Arreton
Valley |
Ventnor
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St
Lawrence and the Undercliff |
St
Catherine's Lighthouse's |
Niton
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Blackgang
Chine |
Blackgang
and Chale |
Brighstone
and Shorwell |
Mottistone
to Compton
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31 January 2008 |