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From April 1607 three ships arrived in Jamestown the settlement..

The earliest instance of smuggling found on the Island

The 1968 festival was minuscule in comparison with the later shows ,..

The 1969 Isle of Wight Festival was a far more ambitious affair than..

The 1970 Pop Festival although better organised than previous..

Isle of Wight Workhouses up to 1834 and then Newport station and now..

The first is the big landslide at Gore Cliff in 1928 that cut off..

"The Prospect" A museum of great interest into the life and times of..

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Demolished - the site is now a light industrial estate and little survives apart from the tunnel portal within a Southern Water compound and some..

The greatest disaster to occur in Isle of Wight waters was the loss in 1917 of RMS Mendi , a steamer carrying more than 800 South African labourers..

The lovely yellow laburnum bushes growing on the hill gave the name to this unusual hexagonal Fort.

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