This is 8-9 Shooters Hill, West Cowes, now running as an Italian restaurant – Toninos. Many of the original buildings of Shooters Hill date back hundreds of years. Back in the mid 1800s, nos 8 & 9 held two separate businesses: David M Corke, a pilot at no9 & Nicolas Moth, a plumber at no8. By the late 1800s George Adolphus Wyatt set up from both premises as an upholsterer and the business continued under his son (GA Junior), grandson Ernest Sharman Wyatt, and great grandson R

Bath Road in Cowes takes its name from the bath house established in 1790 offering ‘hot plunging and salt water baths’. The stone at the top of Prince’s Building has ‘AEM 1885’ carved into it. AEM are the initials of Albert Edward Marvin junior (born in 1871 Cowes) and his father Albert Edward Marvin senior (born 1848), both auctioneers. The Marvin family commissioned the building as an auction house for their expanding business selling houses, house contents, land and yachts

This main part of this building was originally known as Wilton House, number 130 Cowes High Street. This is how Sainsbury in Cowes used to look. This main part of this building was originally known as Wilton House, number 130 Cowes High Street. In 1852 a surgeon Dr William Hoffmeister lived there. Hoffmeister was the surgeon-apothecary-physician to Her Majesty (Queen Victoria) at Osborne and was knighted there. He later lived at Clifton House, Bath Road and died in 1890. By