Sandford Hotel lounge bar 1990s.
Sandford Country House Hotel reminders - hotel brochure 1999, tarriff card from 1966 and Christmas menu from 1998.
Leaflet outlining the history of Sandford House.
In the 1990s St Fort Estate was a popular venue for carriage driving championships. Here the Duke of Edinburgh is competing.
The Leng Chapel at Vicarsford Cemetery, two miles south of Newport. Built on a hill, the chapel is a memorial to John Leng's first wife Emily.
Leng Chapel Inscription Panel. The Memorial to John Leng's first wife Dame Emily Leng, and also remembrance of his second wife Mary.
Detail of the ceiling in the Leng Chapel.
Two stained glass panes from the staircase window in Netherlea House, demolished in 2019.
I've always found this mural on the blocked up gable window of the house at the bottom of James Street rather intriguing. I've now learned that it was done around 1975 by four-year-old Boo Paterson (now a successful artist) and her older brother who lived in this house. They collected sea glass from the shore ...
During St Fort carriage driving events this impressive coach and horses passed through Woodhaven, unintentionally re-creating a scene which must have been seen so often at this very spot 200 years ago.
Four amazing photographs showing the real Blyth Hall roof. In 1974 a false ceiling was installed in the hall, which no doubt helped with heating, but it hid this magnificent roof. Architect Robert Lorimer, designer of the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle, and of our own Newport memorial, described this ceiling as one ...