Brading, Commercial |
Nash Cornelius, baker |
Nash William, farmer, Park farm |
National Telephone Co. Limited; public call offices, New road & Station road |
New Town Hall |
New William Henry, blacksmith |
Newman Sydney Edgar, grocer, High street |
Old Town Hall |
Owens Robt., Angler's inn Yarbridge |
Pain Isaac Wavell, dairy farmer |
Parish Club & Reading Room (James Wheeler, sec. & treas.), High street |
Paul Harry, farmer, Biaper |
Pepys Herbert Frederick, apartments, Home croft |
Plumbley Frank John, farmer, Crouches farm, Adgestone |
Redstone Victor, baker & grocer |
Reed Ernest, farmer Adgestone farm |
Repton Hugh Sibary Palmer, nurseryman, Alverstone |
Riddick & Sons, grocer & baker |
Salter Enos, market gardener, Burnt house |
Sheath Charles, market gardener, Adgestone |
Simmonds Charles, joiner, East view |
Simmonds George Charles, baker |
Simmonds Walter & Henry, builders, Cambridge villa |
Simmonds William, gardener, stoneham house |
Stark George, apartments, 2 Dorest villas, Morton |
Stay Wilfred, blacksmith, West street & tobacconist, High street |
Tayler George, farmer, Hardingshute farm |
Tayler Percy, boot maker |
Walker Frank & Henry, farmers, White House farm |
Wilkins George Alfred, market gardener |
Wood Arthur Henry, New inn |
Wright William George, beer retailer |
Young Fanny (Mrs.), in charge of Railway Crossing, Alverstone |
Young William isaac, farmer, see Goble & Young |
Brading, Civic |
The railway station stands on the Isle of Wight railway |
Railway Station, George Corbett, station master |
The branch railway line from Brading station to St. Helens and Bembridge |
Railway Crossing, Alverstone ; trains take up passengers here by signal only; Mrs. Fanny Young, in charge |
The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice od stone in the Transition Norman and Early English styles. |
There is a United Methodist chapel |
The Congregational chapel was built in 1887, seating 225. |
The old Town Hall, rebuilt on its old site in 1875-6 - contains a free library containing 1400 volumes. |
In a small open space in the middle of the principal street the massive bull ring, to which bulls were formerly tied to be baited, still remains. |
The new Town Hall was erected in 1902, exclusive of the value of the site, of nearly 1000 GBP ; designed by Mr. James Newman, architect, of Sandown, opened in Feb. 1903. The site was presented by Rev. E. Summers B.D. vicar 1884-1906. |
Sexton - Frederick William Bench |
Post, M. O. & Telephone Call Office - Henry Loe, sub-postmaster |
ALVERSTONE is a small hamley, 2 miles south-west |
MORTON and YARBRIDGE are small hamlets, a mile south |
ADGESTONE, 1 1/4 miles south-west |
Schools: |
The School Board, formed in 1881, has been dissolved by the Education Act of 1902, and the schools are now controlled by a board of managers under the direction of the County Education Committee |
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