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Freshwater
Isle of Wight
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Please click thumbnails for larger picture.
Old postcards are sometimes poorly produced and grainy,
I've done my best to scan them.
Dates are from the card or my estimate (where possible).
The maker of the card is shown in brackets (where available).
All pictures on this page are from my own collection,
but are not my copyright. If you wish to repost or reuse them would you please
out of courtesy let me know.
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St. Agnes church, Freshwater dated 1910, just
after it was built. (Stuart) |
A more unusual
view showing the back of St Agnes church
with beyond it Afton downs. (Sweetman) |
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Described as 'a Rustic Scene' near Farringford.
This is in ' The Mall'
Gate Lane outside Thorntons (formerly Woolf and
Geer). Orchards
store is in the background. Probably from the
1930's. (Nigh) |
Orchards Stores in 1906, ss well as a grocery
store, there was also a bakery and the Freshwater Bay Post Office.
The grocers still remains but the bakery closed, and the Post Office
moved a few yards down the road (toward the Bay) to Woolf and Geer
(now Thorntons). (National) |

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Tennyson Lane looking towards
Gate Lane, around 1910. (Gubbins)
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Entitled 'A pond in Tennyson Lane', undated.
(Sweetman)
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Farringford Cottage, this card is from about 1910.
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Farringford Farm, Just off Bedbury Lane, 1906. (National) |
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An early (pre 1914) view of Tennysons
monument.
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An artistic view of Highdown Cliffs looking towards
Tennysons monument by A R Quinton.
(Salmon) |
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The outside of the station in about 1890. |
An undated picture of the inside of the the station. |
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