This is St Mary the Virgin Church, Cowes near Northwood House. (scroll down for history) The original church was built in 1657 and an additional chancel (area around the altar) was designed by Joseph Richards and added in 1811. In 1816 the west tower was added which was designed by John Nash in of Greek style in Portland Stone, a style ‘so unlike Nash’ according to author Pevsner. The tower was given by George Ward of Northwood House, as the family mausoleum and the interior

This magnificent building is The Calendon in Cowes, now a guest house (the-caledon.co.uk), was once the home of Mr Alfred Fennings, a chemist with a patent for medicines. Alfred Fennings (sometime written as Fenning) was born in 1815 in Stepney, London to parents William and Eliza (Tyler) Fennings. It is unclear when he moved to the Isle of Wight, but the Alfred Fenning medicines business dated back to 1834 in Hammersmith. Having moved to Cowes on the Isle of Wight, Alfred ma

This is Number 14 High Street, Sandown, Isle of Wight, once the premises of the Capital & Counties Bank. The C&C Bank had been in Sandown since at least 1882, but it is unclear exactly when this building was built. The Capital & Counties bank was taken over by Lloyds Bank around 1918 and a Lloyds Branch remained in the premises for almost one hundred years until around 2016. This marker pen sketch shows how Number 14 looked when it was decorated for the coronation of King Geo