Freshwater Village

Isle of Wight

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).

Returning back to the site of the Station, we travel along School Green Road. This was the view looking back towards the station in 1915. The building on the left (an auction room) has been demolished, but the rest of the buildings remain (although the awnings have been removed).

(Picture from Freshwater in old picture postcards by the late Joy Lester)

Continuing along School Green Road we reach what is now the heart of the village.


View from School Green looking towards the station dated 1909. (Welch)	An old picture of School Green, certainly prior to 1895 which shows the thatched cottage which used to the a school house with the Wesleyan chapel behind it.

A similar view around 1903. The building on the left were built in 1896 (Moa Place is named after the cottages formerly on the Site, its origins apparently relate to a New Zealand bird!)	Another view, the Hairdresser is still there as is the stationer (Elliotts) on the right (with the same name). The Palace was a cinema, subsequently Kempsters (drapers) and now a tearoom (The Tudor Lounge)

The centre of Freshwater village, around the turn of the century. The blacksmiths is in the foreground.	Vine Inn, 1921

Looking down Tennyson Road towards School Green Road. Lloyds Bank is on the corner middle right and the vine behind the building left.	Clovelly Guest House, behind Freshwater Social Club in 1953. (Merwood)

Longhalves Walk, a footpath which runs behind the buildings shown opposite towards the church, about 1910. Another picture of Longhalves.	Pound Green, south of the village centre around 1906

Freshwater Windmill, about 1880, this was situated off Summers Lane on the way to Totland. (Picture from Freshwater in old picture postcards by the late Joy Lester)	Although actually in Totland, this is the view down the Avenue towards Freshwater. In the distance can be seen the corner shop stationers. Dated 1937