This magnificent building is Victoria House, number 41 High Street Cowes, now the shop ‘Live Like This’. To the left are numbers 40 and...

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...

The Sandown history gallery is steadily growing. Please contact me with requests for drawings, history, or to share any further...

This is 109 High Street, Sandown. The earliest record of the building’s inhabitants is 1882 to at least 1888 when it was occupied by The...

This is Number 16 High Street, Sandown. FH Masters is Frank Horatio Masters who ran a bakery/ catering business for many years....

This is 109 High Street, Sandown. The earliest record of the building’s inhabitants is 1882 to at least 1888 when it was occupied by The...

This is number 27 Sandown High Street which for about half a century was the premises of James Dore, a well-known photographer and...

This main part of this building was originally known as Wilton House, number 130 Cowes High Street. This is how Sainsbury in Cowes used...

Couldn’t walk past the Moleskine shop without treating myself, and without having a quick sketch !!

Just realised that I put the wrong description on yesterday's Turkish shop!!! This is the 'freezer' shop that sells freezers, yesterday's...

Another from the Turkish years. This is an old Turkish freezer shop (meaning they sell freezers!) in Fethiye. Love these old buildings,...