Isle of Wight Visible From Brighton?

[GT49er]

I think @Wardy's twin has answered the question, it’s the IOW in two parts!

Ah!

 

[GT49er]

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Fascinating - I've never seen a map showing the location of the workhouse. I was born there!

(The maternity ward was closed down due to an outbreak of something deadly - diphtheria I believe; several babies and a couple of nurses had died, so I've been told - so the workhouse was dusted down and re-opened and expectant mums hustled to safety in there). Nice easy journey from there downhill to Whippingham Road and (then) home!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Anyone else's brain scramble thread title into Ian Wright Visible From Brighton?

 

[Eeyore]

Fascinating - I've never seen a map showing the location of the workhouse. I was born there!

(The maternity ward was closed down due to an outbreak of something deadly - diphtheria I believe; several babies and a couple of nurses had died, so I've been told - so the workhouse was dusted down and re-opened and expectant mums hustled to safety in there). Nice easy journey from there downhill to Whippingham Road and (then) home!

Ironically a road with an IOW name again.

I took a picture of the old hospital last night. Imposing as ever

Wrote some more stuff about the history here. Very haunted by all accounts. Feeds in to what you said.

The Brighton Workhouse

Yesterday morning I had a physiotherapy appointment at the General Hospital. It was the first time I had actually been there for medical reasons. In 1978 a grandparent spent her last few days in on…

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[Eeyore]

It was 10 years ago this month, on the day of the dead rubber against Costa Rica, that it appears I last visited the IOW.

It rather looks like it may have been my last from the write up

A Cheap Day Return To Shanklin

Nostalgia hasn’t had its day, and even the most mundane of places can become a home of many a special reflection. For me the Isle of Wight, as a child, was a place of magic, for it gave open season…

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It's not really a place for adults unless you fancy walking or a bike ride. Some may differ. I do like the trains though.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Ironically a road with an IOW name again.

I took a picture of the old hospital last night. Imposing as ever

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Wrote some more stuff about the history here. Very haunted by all accounts. Feeds in to what you said.

The Brighton Workhouse

Yesterday morning I had a physiotherapy appointment at the General Hospital. It was the first time I had actually been there for medical reasons. In 1978 a grandparent spent her last few days in on…

queensparkchronicles.uk

nice read

 

[GT49er]

Ironically a road with an IOW name again.

Indeed, a veritable small estate of streets named after places in the IOW (or possibly after small steam engines built in Brighton works around the time they were built!)

I took a picture of the old hospital last night. Imposing as ever

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Wrote some more stuff about the history here. Very haunted by all accounts. Feeds in to what you said.

The Brighton Workhouse

Yesterday morning I had a physiotherapy appointment at the General Hospital. It was the first time I had actually been there for medical reasons. In 1978 a grandparent spent her last few days in on…

queensparkchronicles.uk

Cheers.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

according to the IOW lad in our office, its a bit of both

Apart from my house.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

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[Doc Lynam]

Used to work on the top floor of BGH and you could see the Isle of Wight but only on very and dry days.

 

[Doc Lynam]

 

[Doc Lynam]

Isle of Wight top right of Sussex Heights

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

the two parts of the IOW with low lying Shanklin/Sandown in the middle bit. Certainly not cloud and something I have seen 40+ times a year (though not as clear) for the last 60 years.
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Great photo.

 

[Wardy's twin]

I always thought it was Bembridge Cliffs which are at the eastern end of the 'diamond shape' island. They are 43 metres high.

I am pretty sure its Culver down/Horseshoe bay that you see as cliffs which are the high bit to the south of Bembridge. If you focus in on the area just above the white cliff you can see a spike which I believe is the The Earl Yarborough's Monument...

 

[Wardy's twin]

Great photo.

taken with a 40 year old/20 quid manual lense...

 

[raymondo]

Anyone else's brain scramble thread title into Ian Wright Visible From Brighton?

No. You're obsessed with celebrity

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

No. You're obsessed with celebrity

Good point, well made

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Taken from the top of elm Grove, is this the Isle of Wight? The trees on the right hide the fact that there is a clear expanse of sea between it and the mainland.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Taken from the top of elm Grove, is this the Isle of Wight? The trees on the right hide the fact that there is a clear expanse of sea between it and the mainland.

Yes. That's the IoW

 

[raymondo]

Taken from the top of elm Grove, is this the Isle of Wight? The trees on the right hide the fact that there is a clear expanse of sea between it and the mainland.

The top of Elm Grove is also visible from the IOW