Bartie's Postcards of the Isle of Wight

• Postcard Home
  
  
  
• Bembridge
• Blackgang and area
• Bonchurch
• Brading/Newchurch
• Carisbrooke
• Countrylife
• Cowes - the sea front
• Cowes - the river
• Cowes - the town
• Cowes - the ferries
• East Cowes
• Freshwater
• Godshill
• Gurnard
• Newport
• Osborne House
• Ryde - the town
• Ryde - the sea front
• Ryde - the sea and pier
• Ryde - the surroundings
• Sandown
• Seaview - the pier and bays
• Seaview - the village
• Seaview - Salterns and westward
• Shanklin - the town
• Shanklin - sea & shore
• South Wight
• St Helens
• Ventnor
• Yarmouth
• West Wight Totland etc
  
  
• Some odd postcards
  well, not really 'odd', more like 'unclassified' !

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Minerva
Isle of Wight
Pictorial and Guide
(circa 1900)

Bartie's Hovercraft

• Hover Home
• Terms and conditions
  
  
• What happened to the hovercraft
  
  
• Cushioncraft
  CC1
  CC2
  CC4
  CC5
  CC6
  CC7
  
  
• Hovercraft Development Ltd
  HD-1
  HD-2
  HU-4
  
  
• Hovermarine
  HM-2
  HM-4
  HM-5
  Hovercat
  
  
• Saunders-Roe/BHC
  SR-N1
  SR-N2
  SR-N3
  SR-N4
  SR-N5
  SR-N6
  BH-7
  BH-8
  AP1-88
  
  
• Vickers Armstrong
  VA-1
  VA-2
  VA-3
  
  
• Vosper Thornycroft
  VT1-M
  VT1
  VT2
  
  
• Operators
  Hovertravel
  AP1-88
  SR-N6
  BHT130
  
  Seaspeed
  HM2
  SR-N6

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Built by Whites ?

Lists of J.Samual White vessels:

• Naval ships (1885 to 1965) - Pictures

• Lifeboats (1898 to 1964)

• Private and commercial vessels (1815 to 1965)
  
  
• Vessels of White Brothers of Itchen Ferry
  
  
• Vessels of W. White & Sons of West Cowes

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A short history of Saunders-Roe

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Grave markers at
Newport cemeteries

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writings about
Seaview and the local families

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Seachable database of census returns:

• 'Mariners at Sea'
• 'County Ayslums'

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Transcript of Isle of Wight section of Sadler's 1784 Hampshire directory.

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Transcript of Isle of Wight section of Pigot's 1828 Hampshire directory.

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List of private and commercial entries in Isle of Wight directory:

• White's 1859
• Kelly's 1898
• Kelly's 1911
  
  
• Kelly's, Ryde, 1951
  
  
• Kelly's, Newport, 1904

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See more about the Isle of Wight

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If you have any old photographs or postcards of the Isle of Wight in bygone years, or Hovercraft, send a copy to me (preferable as a .jpg file by e-mail - 150dpi, files less than 500kbyte preferred) and I'll try to include them (with due acknowledgement).