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In 1969 well before many of my readers were born, I went to the Isle of Wight with a party of school children from a primary school in Stockport, Cheshire where my first wife taught. We stayed in a holiday camp of some sort and saw quite a lot of the Island in the two weeks (?) that we were there.

In May 2010 I returned to the IOW, this time as a guest at a 60th birthday party of a good friend of ours who were celebrating in a house near St Helens in the North East corner of the island.

 

Yours truly posing near Alum Bay with the Needles in the background.

Couldn't be anywhere else really.

 This was the bus that had brought us all down from Stockport.

Mr West, the then headmaster of the school standing in the middle.

One more shot from 1969. Walking up from Freshwater Bay towards the Tennyson monument.

Tony Green and Al Cook on  camera left.

 and a similar scene in May 2010.

Taken on my I Phone.

Didn't even have mobile phones in 1969.
Crossing from Lymington to the IOW on a spanking new ferry. Health and safety signs everywhere.

Is it really necessary?

Some quite posh boats, but then, this is a hugely popular boating area.

 A short walk from our holiday home is this former church, now used as a marker for shipping whose navigation systems have gone AWOL.

Well, that's my theory.
Nice sky, but cold for May. Needs a little renovation, methinks.

Even more renovation here.

Wellingtons are needed here.
This is our holiday home for a few days. An interesting morning was spent at the Roman settlement at nearby Brading.

Some saucy bits depicted here.

Nearby Godshill is chocolate box pretty.

Jean and our friends just outside the porch of the church in Godshill.

Appropriate place for a church, don't you think?
The black and white version of the church appealed to me more than the colour version. In the same village, some Romany caravans: in miniature.
One morning I jetted off to Sea View (a place) where I briefly nostalged in front of this shop window.

An old wireless (Radio) or two, and even a model Lancaster bomber on top of one of them.

Bright and Breezy: it's the great British Seaside!

Isle of Wight