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Preserving The Past For The Future - Over 9.9 GB of Information!
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Was King John in Wootton in 1215? Fact or legend?
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Twenty-nine Galleries packed with Photographs
A large collection of historical photographs, images and drawings of Wootton Bridge and the surrounding parishes, dating back to the 1870's. Ryde and Newport are also featured along with sections on the Island Railways and other transportation.
Historical Maps of Wootton Bridge
A collection of maps and drawings of Wootton Bridge, with a few depicting the surrounding areas. See how the parish boundaries have altered over the years.
The 1857/8 Diary of Mary Ann Denham
This recently discovered diary was written by 21 year old Mary Denham, who lived at Wootton Common. It was written over a period of two years, 1857/8. Read the diary in full and discover what became of Mary.
We have developed this part of the web site to reflect the diversity of the business within the village. Though small in number those that do exist are quite vibrant.
The village caters for both the businessman and the holidaymaker with a four star hotel and restaurant, a caravan and camping site together with several bed and breakfast places. The village has several inns offering food and refreshments and there are two take-away shops offering food for the passing trade.
As part of our aim to preserve historic information and as a result of requests from a number of people we have decided to create a separate section within the web site devoted to the collection and display of old cookery recipes.
Several years ago I came across an old recipe book of my mother’s stretching back to 1920, several people suggest that I publish the contents in book form, it never got done, now this historical web site is an ideal medium in which to publish and preserve the information.
This section of the website is devoted to displaying the work of local photographers who have no web access of their own.
Island photographers are invited to submit their images for display on this site.
Pictures can be scenic views of the Island, nature or animal images.
Two photographers are currently featured and more will be added soon.
Mary Denham was born on Saturday, 30th July 1836. She lived all of her life either in Wootton Common or Newport, in the Isle of Wight. Time, developers and the County Council have swept away all the physical traces of her life. Indeed, we might never have remembered her but for one piece of her life that has survived, her diary.
The diary was found in a bookshop in Norfolk, some time ago, and was given to Mr. Ken Morris who lives in Wootton Bridge. How it came to be in Norfolk is unknown.
The Isle of Wight Rifles were also known as the "8th (territorial) Battalion The Hampshire Regiment, Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight Rifles", or informally "The Isle of Wight Rifles". They also gained the Nickname "The Isle of Wight Gurkhas" due to a similarity in Rifles uniform and drill, and possibly because they tended to be shorter than the average height of the time.
The Isle of Wight had long been fortified against invasion, due to its strategic position. It had also had numerous troops billeted in the Napoleonic Wars.
Wootton Bridge Historical is now one of the Island's largest and Fastest growing websites and it just gets better. Wootton Life is a new addition to our family of websites, dedicated to living in Wootton Bridge.
So what can you expect? An advertisement free site containing up to-date content with news and information about Wootton, updates on our other websites and best of all it is completly inter-active so you can add your comments and write your own content for the site!
Portsmouth To Ryde + Pictures of the Wight Link service from Ryde Pier Head to Portsmouth Harbour of the past 20 years.
Lymington To Yarmouth + Images of the Wight Link car and passenger service from Yarmouth to Lymington of the past 20 years.
Southhampton To West Cowes + Images of the Red Funnel service from Southampton Docks to West Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
Cowes Express + Historical images of the Cowes Expess service which ran from West Cowes to Southampton in the 1990's.
Creekside Women's Institute was founded in 1967 based in the village of Wootton Bridge and is one of 37 WI’s on the Isle of Wight.
On this site you can also find the Creekside Women's Institute Blog which contains all the leatest news, photographs, old and new and general information.
There are also links to enable you to contact and join the WI.
We have extended our popular wartime recipes. This now has a stand alone website.
Here you will find all the recipes published by the Ministry of Food, during the Second World War, together with information on unusual foods such as whalemeat and Snoek along with some of the films issued by the Ministry of Information.
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