

Rosetta Cottage, Cowes - a little history
This is marker pen sketch of the beautiful Rosetta Cottage, right on the seafront at Queen’s Road, Cowes. According to a leaflet Bricks...
Jan 21, 20192 min read


Windsor House, Castle Road, Cowes - a little history
This is Windsor House, Castle Road, Cowes. See history in the comments below. There were several Cowes houses known Windsor House in the...
Jan 19, 20192 min read


Blenheim House, 9 Birmingham Road, Cowes - a little history of Beken's pharmacy
This is a painting of 9 Birmingham Road, Cowes, also known as Blenheim House - how it looked around the early 1900s when it was Beken and...
Jan 18, 20193 min read


The history of Alexandra House, Birmingham Road, Cowes
This iconic Cowes building is Alexandra House, 19 Birmingham Road. Until quite recently it has been empty and boarded up. Still empty,...
Jan 16, 20192 min read


Northwood House, Cowes - a little history
Northwood House, and its 26 acres, was originally owned by London businessman George Ward and remained in the family for 5/6 generations...
Jan 7, 20191 min read


Cowes Methodist Church, Birmingham Road, Cowes
Initially named the Victoria Wesleyan Church, the church which opened in June 1901 and cost about £8000. An article of the time states...
Jan 6, 20191 min read


The Foresters, Sun Hill, Cowes
This is now part of The North House, a boutique hotel in the heart of Cowes Old Town. This building in Sun Hill, Cowes used to be the...
Jan 4, 20191 min read


Sun Hill Cowes - a little Cowes history
Numbers 49-47-45-43-41-39 Sun Hill, Cowes Old Town, IOW. Cowes Old Town is a cluster of pastel painted streets that lead down from the...
Jan 3, 20191 min read


Who lived in Mill Hill Road, Cowes?
The first house built around the 1880s housed William Henry a retired master mariner and his wife from Lymington. After William’s death,...
Jan 1, 20192 min read


Prince's Building in Bath Road, Cowes - who lived there?
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...
Nov 23, 20181 min read


130 High Street Cowes - a little Cowes history
This main part of this building was originally known as Wilton House, number 130 Cowes High Street. This is how Sainsbury in Cowes used...
Nov 21, 20182 min read