fireball
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I quite agree - but at what cost? It isn't exactly cheap to create a sort of haven that is big enough for 'pleasure boats' ..
At least this way there is a haven of sorts - and that could be built on in future?
Ventnor Marina
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At least this way there is a haven of sorts - and that could be built on in future?
KevB
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A couple of years ago we had a short stay for lunch on one of the visitors buoys outside the 'harbour'.
£14 for a couple of hours!!! never again.
£14 for a couple of hours!!! never again.
Greenheart
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How could I forget to mention that battered cod?! The best, anywhere. My mate and I always deliberately went without chips - so we could each find room for two fish instead!
I recall a Wayfarer crewed by a father and son, landing on the beach at Ventnor in 1997. He'd come a fair distance, from Poole I think. We chatted about how problematic it is to stop there in anything but ideal weather, and aboard any boat that couldn't be hauled up the beach, just as that big yellow power-catamaran always was.
I'm glad if the haven has eased the fishing-crews' work, but it's hard to believe that the cost of laying visitors' moorings in deep water, is greater than would be repaid by their rental during the summer. The council must be very hard-up, or fatally myopic.
Likewise, if the breakwaters had been extended into deep water so that visiting yachts might escape the very exposed water outside, I'm sure Ventnor would be raking in pounds and euros for every meter of pontoon space, for decades.
Odd, to think the railway ever served Ventnor. Was there a tunnel, or a toothed rail? It's certainly steep down there.
I recall a Wayfarer crewed by a father and son, landing on the beach at Ventnor in 1997. He'd come a fair distance, from Poole I think. We chatted about how problematic it is to stop there in anything but ideal weather, and aboard any boat that couldn't be hauled up the beach, just as that big yellow power-catamaran always was.
I'm glad if the haven has eased the fishing-crews' work, but it's hard to believe that the cost of laying visitors' moorings in deep water, is greater than would be repaid by their rental during the summer. The council must be very hard-up, or fatally myopic.
Likewise, if the breakwaters had been extended into deep water so that visiting yachts might escape the very exposed water outside, I'm sure Ventnor would be raking in pounds and euros for every meter of pontoon space, for decades.
Odd, to think the railway ever served Ventnor. Was there a tunnel, or a toothed rail? It's certainly steep down there.
VicS
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There were railways all over the IOW at one time. Here on my OS map is the route of the railway from Shanklin to Ventnor
Greenheart
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I love maps with heights in imperial measurements! That is old!
I bought the last few of the 10km X 10km 'First series' 1:25,000 O.S. maps, from Hammicks in Chichester, in the mid-'eighties. Still treasured possessions. I wish I'd been around when there were still several shelves bursting with them, "in all good bookshops".
Once upon a time I had the same scale IoW map, showing all of the island on one sheet. When I had to renew it, I was sorry to see they'd decided to print both sides of the sheet, so its use for hanging on a wall, was lost.
I never had a sheet that showed railway stops at Wroxall and Ventnor, though. I wonder if that tunnel is out of bounds now, or revisitable if one knows a way in?
I bought the last few of the 10km X 10km 'First series' 1:25,000 O.S. maps, from Hammicks in Chichester, in the mid-'eighties. Still treasured possessions. I wish I'd been around when there were still several shelves bursting with them, "in all good bookshops".
Once upon a time I had the same scale IoW map, showing all of the island on one sheet. When I had to renew it, I was sorry to see they'd decided to print both sides of the sheet, so its use for hanging on a wall, was lost.
I never had a sheet that showed railway stops at Wroxall and Ventnor, though. I wonder if that tunnel is out of bounds now, or revisitable if one knows a way in?
VicS
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I reckon the tunnel entrance at the Wroxall end, if it still exists is among the trees below centre in This Google map.
And i reckon clearly visible but closed off at the end of Old Station Road in Ventnor HERE
By the way my map is a 1961 edition.
There was at one time anothe line coming into Ventnor from the west To Ventnor West Station I reckon it came through the tunnel you can just see on the extreme RH edge of my map.
See HERE for more info
And the 1948 railway map
And i reckon clearly visible but closed off at the end of Old Station Road in Ventnor HERE
By the way my map is a 1961 edition.
There was at one time anothe line coming into Ventnor from the west To Ventnor West Station I reckon it came through the tunnel you can just see on the extreme RH edge of my map.
See HERE for more info
And the 1948 railway map
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Greenheart
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No doubt of it, those'll be the tunnel's ends. It's only my mischievous instinct, wondering what it's like in there, after...how long? Are those tunnels haunted by the spectre of Dr Beeching, justifying his closures?
I'd like to see Ventnor's station re-opened, too. But...if only the material originally tunnelled out from the hill, had been wheeled down to the beach and dumped between arrangements of ironwork, hammered into the seabed...the town might have had a yacht-basin, too!
I'd like to see Ventnor's station re-opened, too. But...if only the material originally tunnelled out from the hill, had been wheeled down to the beach and dumped between arrangements of ironwork, hammered into the seabed...the town might have had a yacht-basin, too!