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Yarmouth TownIsle of Wight |
Old postcards are sometimes poorly produced and grainy, I've done my best to scan them.
Dates are from the card or my estimate (where possible). The maker of the card is shown in brackets (where available).
All pictures on this page are from my own collection, but are not my copyright. Copy If you wish, but if you repost or reuse them would you please out of courtesy let me know.
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The square showing the tower of St James church and the Town Hall (jutting out from the row of buildings on the right). (National) |
A busier view of the square from 1938. (Nigh) |
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The Square looking north, probably from the 50's the entrance to the pier can be seen middle right. (Dean) |
Yarmouth Square from the Church tower looking north, probably from the late 1960's. (Nigh) |
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| A postcard of the shore from the pier, dated 1911. (Peacock) | Yarmouth Castle from the sea, around 1910. |
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The back of the Pier Hotel, undated. It was originally named the George, changed to the Pier Hotel in 1897 and back to the George in 1929. The castle is to the right. (Russell) |
Another view of the Pier Hotel, the front entrance is on the left, about 1910. (Stuart) |
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Yarmouth castle, probably some time prior to 1920 taken from the grounds of the George hotel. |
Yarmouth, the Castle Courtyard, undated. (Judges) |
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A close up of the gate from the George garden to the Castle, named on the card as the Plantagenet gateway. (Judges) |
A statue of Sir Robert Holmes in Yarmouth (not Freshwater church as shown on the card). It originally had the head of a Spanish nobleman but Holmes replaced it with his own. (Welch) |
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| An undated card of the inside of the Kings Head, Yarmouth. (Judges) | |
