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An external view of Bembridge Railway Station on The Isle of Wight in 1969. The station had closed in 1953 and by now the tracks and platforms had been overtaken by nature. It was demolished in 1973 along with the white house to the right of it which had the name Brickwoods written on the roof. The Brickwood name seems to have connections with the Bembridge area.
The Grade 2 listed Spithead Drinking Fountain can just been seen beyond the bushes to the left of the station building.
Rev, Thomas Ratcliffe M. A. Cantab. 1825 - 1892
14 years curate in charge and 25 years Vicar of the parish.
and Gordon Ratcliffe his elder son.
Frances S Ratcliffe his widow.
N243PDL Iveco : Southern Vectis (new in 1996)
Isle of Wight Classic Buses and Beer weekend, mainly around Newport Quay, 18 October 2014
Now this VR is parked at the Fishbourne Sealink terminal and you might think why? Well It isn't just the current catamaran ferries from Ryde to Portsmouth that cannot weather the storms in winter; back in the days of the MV Southsea and Brading it was also not unusual for the service to be cancelled because of rough seas.On the evening of January 19th 1986 I was late-spare driver at Newport bus station and summoned to Ryde, where part of my duties was to operate a service from Fishbourne to Ryde Esplanade - for foot passengers of course.The ferry operatives asked if I could back right down to the ramp to load up,but this is as far as I went. Also, British Rail had engineering work in place between Havant and Portsmouth Harbour with Southdown buses maintaining the replacement service that Sunday evening,and guess what ? quite bizzarely their buses, namely a National Mk2 and a Leopard worked all the way through from Havant to Ryde via the Sealink ferry !! I managed to get a drive of the National MK2 although the Ryde SV Inspector forbade me.I took the VR out again and I changed over with the Southdown driver out of site of the bus station in George Strreet.This was my third drive of this great sounding marque; I'd previously managed to blag a drive of a Portsmouth Corporation National Mk2 in February 1982 when I drove one from Broad Street ,Old Porstmouth to the Hard Interchange.Also I drove an Eastern Counties example at Cromer in August 1983.Shame Southern Vectis never bought any of the second generation of Leyland Nationals; maybe their policy was more sagacious in the NBC days, when buying vehicles..
Camera: Nikon Nikonos-V
Lens: W-Nikkor 35mm f/2.5 Prime
Film: Fujifilm Fujicolor C200
Develop and Scan: Photo Hippo
Sandy pools with a chance of fossils! The red rocks are over 100 million years old and are known around the world for their dinosaur bones and pterosaur beaks!
Day three on the island.
And if all goes well, just five hours work, and time to do some exploring.
Here's hoping.
After two splendid days of warm, sunny and fine weather, it was on the change today, with high cloud above, and the sea already beginning to be disturbed.
It would only get rougher through the day.
I went down for breakfast at twenty past seven, had my usual of fruit followed by sausage and bacon butty and a whole pot of coffee, while watching the ferries come and go out in the Solent.
And as I had a pass card to get in the factory, I could leave when I wanted to be there for half eight and the opening meeting.
Traffic into Newport was worse, but I was in no hurry, and I arrived at twenty past eight, clocked in and made myself at hoem in the conference room.
Eyes down!
We worked through the morning, and then I had unch of sandwiches, crisps and chocolate. It was like a birthday party, really.
We had the closing meeting, I presented my findings, and we all said thanks. And I was done. Now, I had planned two days, but we covered everything, so I had some two hours to explore.
So, my first target was Godshill.
The modern village looks unpromising, but up Church Hill to the older part: and wow.
A semi-circle of thatched hobbit-style houses, with the tower of All Saints above the thatched roof line. Shame about the parked cars, otherwise it would be picture box perfect.
I found a place to park, and took lots of shots, and walked towards the church, where I found two couples looking round, getting in the way of my pictures!
Oh no.
But they moved and I got my shots, the tombs, the rood screen (a replica) and everything else. And then walking out and the houses spread out below as a large party of ramblers rambled past.
My interior shots make it seem crowded with icons, statues, lecterns and such, but that's not how I remember it. Nice wall tomb, and a fine funerary mantle over a tomb cut into the wall between the Chancel and south chapel.
In the north chapel, behind a full length curtain, and beyond what doubles as the vestry, was a family memorial that reached to the ceiling, and busts of the couple looked out, mournfully.
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Here people have worshipped for about a millennium. Before that it was a major pagan holy site, perhaps going back further thousands of years. The island was the last part of England to be converted to Christianity (C7) and we know a stone church was built here in the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-66). Legend tells how the builders started to erect a church at the bottom of the hill only to find the stones repeatedly miraculously transported to the top. This it seemed was where God wanted the church and so that is where they built it. After the Norman invasion in 1066 the church was rebuilt and the building you are in is the fourth on the site. It dates to the middle of the fourteenth century, around the time of the Black Death, and is in Perpendicular style. A piscina (for washing Mass vessels) from the original Saxon church is incorporated into the wall to the right of the South altar.
One of the features of this church is that, as you can see, it is a double church. The north church belonged to the parish; the southern church was for the workers at nearby Appuldurcombe Priory. In the middle arches are slots where a wooden partition separated the two. The priest’s door, usually in the south wall, is therefore in the north wall. The door through which you entered dates back to the Cl4 church. The roof beams are mostly original (and resemble overturned ships), as are the windows, but not the stained glass. The lovely C20 stained glass window in the north wall was created by William Morris’ studio.
In the chapel on the South side is a most precious wall painting of Christ crucified, not on a wooden cross, but a lily branch. Known as the Lily Cross it is unique in this country. It was painted circa 1450 by an unknown Renaissance artist, possibly Italian. At that time the whole interior of the church would have been brightly painted with religious scenes (traces have been found on other walls). In the Cl6 and C17 Puritans ensured that these works of art were scrubbed off and church interiors lime-washed white. It is probable that the Lily Cross survived because it was carefully covered over to hide it. lt was rediscovered in 1842. The rood beam across the south church, with the figures of Jesus on the cross, Mary his mother and St John, is a replica of what would have been there in the Middle Ages.
Appuldurcombe Priory was “acquired” by Henry Vlll and rented to the Leigh family. On the tomb between the altars, the figures of Sir John and his wife Agnes have their feet, not on the usual dogs, but on boars (the cause of his death). The monks on the bottom of their shoes are praying for their souls (soles get it?).T he memorial on the north wall shows their daughter Anne and her husband, Sir James Worsley, at He had been Henry Vlll’s whipping boy, taking his punishments for him. (For this reason he was given the Appuldurcombe estate on his marriage to Anne.) The helmet has been recently dated to the C14 and was worn in battle by a Leigh, perhaps in the Hundred Years War against France. The church is full of the Worsley family memorials. One by the altar commemorates two young sons killed in a gunpowder accident at Appuldurcombe. The memorial to Richard Worsley (famous for suing his wife’s lover and getting only one shilling damages) is so grandiose and ostentatious that it has been hidden behind the organ; it is known locally as the bath tub. The St George statue commemorates a Godshill nineteen year old soldier killed in 1944. The latest memorial, right of the door, is for Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord in WW ll. In the churchyard, on the left as you leave, is the CWGC maintained grave of an Irish soldier, a casualty in WW1, who died of wounds in the parish.
according to google maps my friend's place was only a few miles from the ferry port.
not only that it appeared to be a fairly simple journey.
he was busy with arranging stuff.
so why not walk, i thought. why not indeed.
well i got very lost.
even the voice on my map app was getting exasperated with me.
these are some of the shots on the my very winding route