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Walk The Wight 2007

Starts Sunday 13th May 2007 This Is A Walk From Bembridge To Alum Bay Across The Island With Check Points Along The Way, There Is Over 5,000 People That Take Part In This Each Year To Raise Money For The Earl Mountbatten Hospice Which Is In Newport, Please Take Time To Visit There Website. Which Can Be Found At http://www.iwhospice.org/ Or Walk The Wight Website At http://www.walkthewight.org.uk/

Here are some of the pictures of walk the Wight 2007 which where taken on the way, as you can see it was raining and very overcast most of the time until the afternoon then when most people had finished the sun came out.

Carisbrooke Castle

A Roman fort to which a wooden keep and a sixty foot high motte was added in the 1070's. The outer walls and the stone polygonal shell keep were completed in the early 12th century, the keep was higher than it is today, and the Gateway was added in 1335. The castle was strengthened in 1597, but then was allowed to decay until it was restored in 1856.

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Carisbrooke Castle  2005

Isle of Wight Ferries

Fishbourne to Portsmouth                   Fishbourne to Portsmouth               Ryde Pier Head To Portsmouth

            Yarmouth Ferry 2005              Cowes to Southampton Ferry 2005    Ryde Hovercraft Ryde to South sea

 Red Jet 4 Southampton to Cowes                    Red Jet 1                         Fast Cat Portsmouth to Fishbourne

 From as early as 1796, ferries have been operating across the Solent, linking the Isle of Wight to the mainland. In the early nineteenth century, the poor road systems encouraged people to travel by sea between Lymington, a beautiful port in the New Forest area, and Portsmouth. Originally, steam ferries operated a circular route around Lymington, Yarmouth, Cowes, Ryde and Portsmouth, the rail companies themselves became involved in the operation of the ferries, with individual routes appearing between Lymington and Yarmouth and Portsmouth and Ryde.

Freshwater Golden Hill Fort 2005

Golden Hill Fort was a defensible barracks built as part of the Palmerston defences by the 1859.  A six sided structure, it was a land rather than a sea defence fort and acted as a barracks for the gunners manning the nearby batteries. It has been used as an industrial park, but may now be turned into housing.

Freshwater Bay  

Freshwater Bay is a small cove on the south coast of the Island which also gives its name to the nearby part of the village of  Freshwater

The Needles are the western most point  of the Isle of Wight and are a series of chalk stacks which protrude into the see at the end of which is a lighthouse. Nearby is Alum Bay, which is home of the famous coloured sand but is has a rather commercialised 'pleasure park'. The is a chairlift from the top of the cliff to the beach. The sea around the Needles was notorious for shipwrecks. The first lighthouse was built in 1785 on top of the downs, the current one during from the 1850's. A helicopter pad was added in the 1990's and the lighthouse subsequently became automated and unmanned.

 Totland Bay  

Totland Bay Pier on the western side of the Isle of Wight is a similar landing stage pier to that of Yarmouth, further up the coast. The pier was constructed of a light girder framework on cast iron piles and a timber deck. It was built, like many other piers, to encourage tourists to the area by providing a safe and convenient steamer landing stage. By the 1870s regular steamer services were running between Lymington and Yarmouth and, with the arrival of a new road connecting towns along the north west of the island in 1873, the popularity of the bay increased.

       Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi Memorial Stone

Guglielmo Marconi Memorial Stone marking what is described as the site of the world's first permanent wireless station at Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight 2004.

In 1896 Marconi took his apparatus to England where he was introduced to Mr. (later Sir) William Preece, Engineer-in-Chief of the Post Office, and later that year was granted the world's first patent for a system of wireless telegraphy. He demonstrated his system successfully in London, on Salisbury Plain and across the Bristol Channel, and in July 1897 formed The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company Limited (in 1900 re-named Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited). In the same year he gave a demonstration to the Italian Government at Spezia where wireless signals were sent over a distance of twelve miles. In 1899 he established wireless communication between France and England across the English Channel. He erected permanent wireless stations at The Needles, Isle of Wight, at Bournemouth and later at the Haven Hotel, Poole, Dorset. Cornwall, and St. John's, Newfoundland, a distance of 2100 miles.

In 1900 he took out his famous patent No. 7777 for "tuned or syntonic telegraphy" and, on an historic day in December 1901, determined to prove that wireless waves were not affected by the curvature of the Earth, he used his system for transmitting the first wireless signals across the Atlantic between Poldhu,

Marconi died in Rome on July 20, 1937r

Osborne House East Cowes Isle of Wight

Residence of Queen Victoria

The Isle of Wight has always been a favourite among holiday makers for the charm of its countryside and villages and for its world famous yachting centre at Cowes where yacht races have been held since the 18th century. Two important inventors have also been associated with the island and particularly with Osborne House: Guglielmo Marconi and Alexander Graham Bell. It was from Osborne House that Bell gave a demonstration of the telephone to Queen Victoria in 1878 and it was Marconi who transmitted his first royal messages in 1898 enquiring about the health of her son the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) who was then convalescing on board the Royal Yacht.

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