Isle of Wight Record Office

letter from the Public Record Office respecting the responsibility for administering the various acts relating to harbours and inshore navigation, 17 December 1971

printed letter from Frederick Gale, Westminster, to Sir Henry Oglander of Nunwell, with information that an application has been made to Parliament to bring in a bill under the title Brading Harbour Improvements, Railways and Works and to pass an

description of the bounds of Thorley haven, Isle of Wight, c.1664

Ventnor UDC Pier, Gardens and Parks Committee, 1920-8

letter from Leila Calthorpe to Florence Glynn, 26 January 1880, regarding the departure of 15 year old boy for Devonport to join HMS Northampton

letter from Lord Conway to Sir John Oglander regarding billeting, 22 May 1627

accounts for the manor of Asheyeye, includes bulwark defences, 1490, 1510, 1522, 1523

reference to French attack on Isle of Wight, 1377

letter of Lord Southampton to Lord Cromwell regarding the defences at Calshot Point and Cowes, c.1537

general recommendations of Royal Survey, 1559

transcript by Revd John Scott, c.1700, of the general defence survey of Isle of Wight by Francis Knollys

instructions of the Privy Council to Lord Marquis of Winchester and Lord Mountjoy, Lieutenant of Hampshire, c.1560 regarding defence

instructions to the master carpenter of Portsmouth regarding timber at Yarmouth castle, March 1561

warrant regarding powder and defense, 6 August 1574

survey of the number of furnished and unfurnished men in the hundreds of Hampshire, c.1595

letter of Elizabeth I to Sir George Carey, includes details of ordnance, powder, firearms, etc., 14 February 1583

instructions of the centoners regarding the French fleet, 1 September 1586

letter of Thomas Rudd to Sir Edward Dennis and Sir John Oglander regarding complaints of bad workmanship in building defence works, 3 July 1624

counterpart leases for 7 years of watch house and boatmen's house, Brook, 27 February 1858

correspondence, drafts, opinions, etc, regarding conveyance of land at Brooke, to Admiralty, 1860-1, with draft conveyance, 1861

plan of piece of land at Brook sold to the government as site for proposed Coast Guard buildings, 1861

articles of agreement regarding sale of land for Admiralty, 23 October 1861

letter regarding right to foreshore and the Coast Guard, 25 August 1888

three letters from Edward Bush, Ventnor coastguard to Harbottle Estcourt regarding proposed signal station on Bembridge Down, 1890

piece of land, etc, at Bembridge lately occupied by the Coast Guard, with plan, 10 June 1899

conveyance of land for coast guard station, Bembridge Down, with map, 1903

surrender of lease of land at Foreland Field, Bembridge by the Admiralty, 25 March 1909

counter roll of Richard Worsley, Comptroller of the port and town of Southampton, 1559

letters patent permitting Richard Worsley to perform duties as Controller of the Port and Town of Southampton through a deputy, 29 April 1560

order by Lord Chancellor for estates in West Cowes, property of T. Gill, bankrupt, former collector of customs at Cowes, tenement between Fountain & Vine Cowes, on petition of Nicholas Ladd, former captain of HM Revenue Cutters, 14 August 1794

note of sort of people suitable for positions in Cowes Customs Service, 27 July 1811

receipt for 107 fleeces of wool, Cowes Customs House to James Blake, 14 June 1813

lease for 99 years for land on White Cliff for erection of watch house, 30 December 1832

appointment by Rt Hon. Hans Stanley, vice admiral of the Isle of Wight, of William Oglander as Deputy in the Office of Admiralty, 21 May 1765

letter of Edwin John Harvey, Admiralty Law Agent, Portsmouth, to John H.O. Glynn, London, 8 November 1873, regarding foreshore rights

letter from Sir R. Ellis Cunliffe, solicitor, to John H. Oglander, 23 February 1915, regarding legal case concerning Seaview foreshore rights (extensive details)

right of fishery in Brading Haven settled, 1313

, ?? regarding Thomas Smith, sword cutler of Newport, and his lease of oyster digging and fishing in Newtown Haven, 22 December 1711

legal case of John Redston & Edward Falkner v. William Cave, regarding oyster fishery in Claybrooks/Heathfield Luck, 1712

lease between Sir Robert Worsley and William King, fishermen of St Helens, regarding oyster fishing, Brading Haven, 30 September 1736

lease between Sir Richard Worsley and John Newman, innholder of Binbridge, and leaseof oyster fishing, Brading Haven, 28 February 1805

lease for 14 years between Revd Robert Sumner, Cornwall Simeon of London & Robert Burleigh Sewell, gentleman of Newport and Henry Abrook, fisherman of Newtown & Thomas Abrook of Newtown, regarding right of having, taking, dragging and gath

lease between Sir John Simeon of Swainston and Henry & Thomas Abrook, fishermen of Newton, regarding Newtown oyster fishery, 28 October 1865

two copies of lease for 21 years between Sir John Simeon of Swainston and Hugh Colin Smith, of Hayes Wharf, Surrey, Cornwall Simeon of Winchester and Robert Few of Covent Garden, regarding oyster fishery in Newtown haven, 2 November 1866, with dor

lease for 21 years between W.G. Ward of Northwood Park and Hugh Colin Smith of Hayes Wharf, Cornwall Simeon of Winchester, & Robert Few of Covent Garden, regarding rearing oysters on Saltings, Lucks or Lakes Island, Marshlands, and Mudlands on

Chancery report of dispute between Isle of Wight Fishery Company Ltd v. Alderman and Burgesses of Newport regarding pollution of oyster beds in Medina river, 20 November 1873

lease for 21 years between Sir John Barrington Simeon, Swainston, and Isle of Wight Oyster Fishery Company, for newly erected plot at Newtown near the church, 30 January 1877

surrender of lease of 15 February 1869, for west side of Medina river, Northwood, used as an oyster bed, between Hugh Colin Smith of Mayes Whard & Robert Few, gentleman of Middlesex and W.G. Ward of Weston Manor, Freshwater, 24 February 1882

lease, with plan, between W.G. Ward, of Northwood Park and Edmund Granville Ward of Weston Manor, Freshwater, & Isle of Wight Oyster Fishery Company Ltd, 25 February 1882

lease for 21 years between Sir John Stephen Barrington Simeon, Swainston House and Thomas, George, Henry and Charles Paskins, fishmongers of West Cowes (and all members of Thomas Paskins & Sons Ltd), 29 September 1893

account book of disbursements of the Sybil, notably at Gibraltar, Lisbon, Cadiz as well as Cape St Vincent, Oporto, Ferol and Isle of Wight, 1811-12

apprenticeship indenture of Thomas Brown, 14, of East Cowes, to Barrington Pope Blachford, of Osborne, as a mariner, 14 January 1814

Extension Pier papers, 1901-14, 1923

fountain pier, west cowes lease for 14 years, 17 September 1850

fountain pier, west cowes, lease for 2 years between (1) William George Ward, of Northwood Park, and (2) Captain David Corke & Joseph Clarke, both of Southampton (part owners of steamboats plying between Southampton, Portsmouth, West Cowes and

fountain pier, west cowes, assignment of lease for 21 years, 1 June 1865

fountain pier, west cowes, lease for 21 years, with plan, 5 May 1874

fountain pier, west cowes, lease for 23 years, with 2 plans, 4 January 1893

letter of T.R. Brigstocke to Sir Graham Hamon, 13 May n.y. (nineteenth century), regarding meeting of Ryde Pier Company

comprises accounts of Ryde Pier Company, 1815-22; report of directors of Ryde Pier, 1813; printed accounts of Ryde Pier Company, 31 October 1825; list of Ryde Pier Company shareholders, 18 May 1847; byelaws, 1850; list of shareholders and dividend

attested copy of deed of arrangement of the debt of James Cull of Merston, parish of Arreton, Isle of Wight, 8 May 1816, including four Ryde Pier shares

precis of documents with plans, negotiations, conveyances, etc of Ryde Pier Company - Joint Railways, 1856-94

letter of George Young to Sir Graham Eden Hamond, 2 July 1861, soliciting his allocation of new shares in Ryde Pier Company

comprises demand and receipt for 10% deposit on new shares in Ryde Pier Company, 30 September 1861; proxy of dowager Lady Hamond to Sir Andrew Snape Hamond in Ryde Pier Company shares, ?1862; circular letter regarding meeting, March 1863

letter of T.R. Brigstocke to Sir Andrew Hamond regarding meeting of Ryde Pier Company, 16 March 1863

letter of William Anthony Glynn to his brother John, regarding plans for a railway pier at Seaview, 31 December 1875

letter of John O.H. Glynn to his brother William, regarding proposed pier and railway line, 23 January 1876

1 MSS copy and six printed copies of memorandum of association of Seaview Pier Company Ltd, 18 December 1877, with one endorsed with a rough plan showing the Alleyn and the Mermaid docking

letter of J.W. Fardell to his brother John H.O. Glynn, regarding Seaview Pier, 4 April 1879

letter of William A. Glynn to his brother John H.O. Glynn, regarding Sea View Pier and steamboats, 26 April 1879

letter of William A. Glynn to his brother John, regarding shares of the Seaview Pier Company, 6 July 1879

letters of the Oglander family regarding Seaview Pier Company, 1879-81

papers of the Seaview Pier Company, including reports, plans, letters, list of shareholders, telegrams, contracts, leases and agreements, 1879 - 1925

minutes of Seaview Pier Company, 1879-1914

lease and counterpart for 99 years for a salthouse and plans on marsh ground near the redoubt at Yarmouth, 9 July 1730

leases concerning salterns, 1735, 1736

counterpart lease for 99 years for a salthouse and salt works on marsh ground near the redoubt at Yarmouth, 8 July 1738

lease for 21 years of Watch House, adjoining the Salt Work at Shalfleet, 20 April 1740

surrender of lease for 99 years, includes salt house and pans, 23 February 1747

lease and release includes watchhouses with salterns (1 saltwork with 8 pans, the other with 4), May 1769 (also see WARD/1174)

probate of will of John Stephens of West Cowes, mentions salt works at Lymington, Hampsthire, 12 December 1774

copy of lease in fee, includes saltern with 2 pan work with cottage adjoining saltern with 4 pan work, 13 February 1788

lease of the Salterns, 1 January 1797

release of cottage for laying salt and salt pans, 5 May 1795

release in fee of salthouse, 31 December 1807

memorandum of Joseph Westmore to take salterns at Shalfleet, 2 April 1865

4 February 1395, writ of summons against Thomas Symonde, rector of Freshwater, on a charge of smuggling wool into France & 12 March 1395, citation of Thomas Symonde, rector of Freshwater, to appear to the writ under pain of sequestration

photocopies from Longman's Magazine (1902) of the account book of Robert Wheeler of Chale, 1 October 1773 - December 1804, including references to the prices of fish, shipping of copperas and smuggling

p.1, letter book with references to smuggling including, p.1, prosecution of James Simmons and William Linnington, 18 June 1819; p.23, four men prosecuted for smuggling 100 gallons of brandy and 550 gallons of wine, 22 June 1819; p.81, advice to t

noted of the Albion, Rambler and Egyptian, smugglers, were fired upon and one man wounded, 22 March 1823

account of G.F. Mew C.C. of smuggling in the island, 1850 - 1900

letter of C. Deare, customs officer at Cowes, to the ?Admiralty, regarding lack and men and facilities to counter widespread smuggling on the island, notes its history since 1830, 2 December 1886

Cowes Protest Book, 1 October 1755 - 19 February 1763

misc papers including three bills of sales for vessels, 1821-30

photocopies of four letters regarding cargo being shipped at Cowes, specifically regarding 1 dozen bottles of Madeira and 6 bottles of port, 7 June 1829; bill for porterage, 6 September 1832; instructions on shipment to St Katherines Dock, 1 July

certificate of exit by the Vice Consul at British Consulate, Brest, for the English ship the Witch to Portsmouth, 14 September 1846

bill of sale of 21/64th parts and 1/3 of a 64th part of the smack or vessel the Rose of Cowes, 27 December 1843, between Richard Caws of Nettlestone, mariner and Edward Chiddey of Bembridge, sailmaker

photograph of SS Chimborazo, 1871

photographs, newspaper cuttings and service of dedication regarding the `Tennyson' Sea Mark on Freshwater Down, 6 August 1897

declaration of ownership of 16/64th part of the Neptune, pilot cutter, by Arthur Thomas Davis of Seaview, 14 March 1901

bill from William Vesey to Mrs Jane Cole for legal work includes reference to boat hire from Yarmouth, 1715

letter book with reference to ferry charges, 10 July 1823

letters from Col. (later Major General) Henry Oglander, Meerut, India, to his sister Miss Fanny Oglander and to his sister-in-law Lady Maria Oglander, 13 September 1833 - 5 December 1839, with reference to Government iron steamers, the Percurso

letter from William Anthony Glynn, junior to his father, 6 June 1858, regarding steamer voyage from London to the Isle of Wight

list of ferry charges, March 1863

programme of conference on `Transport between the Isle of Wight and the mainland', 16 April 1966

photographs of floating bridge, Cowes, 1890, c.1900

rough estimate of traffic on floating bridge, Cowes, c.1900

letter from A. Damant to Cowes Ferry Committee regarding infringement of ferry rights, 11 August 1901

out-letter book of manager of Cowes Ferry Committee, October 1901 - 18 August 1907

estimate of traffic on Cowes floating bridge, 10 October 1901

weekly wage account book, Cowes Ferry Committee, 1901-1911

ledger of accounts due (special accounts) of the Cowes Ferry Committee, 1901-55

ledger of accounts due of the Cowes Ferry Committee, 1901-27

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accounts and reports of the Cowes Ferry Committee, 1931

letter from Fanny Oglander, Ryde to her brother Col. Henry Oglander, India, with reference to voyage in the steam packet and her chaise being towed behind in a boat, 6 July 1831

letter from Fanny Oglander, Ryde to her brother Col. Henry Oglander, India, with reference to steam packet and the two packets from Portsmouth, 30 June 1832

letter from William Anthony Glynn junior to Mr Elridge, May 1861 with reference to journey from Ryde to Portsmouth

letter from Caroline Crawford to John Henry Oglander Glynn, 23 April 1863 with reference to the Ryde ferry

includes minutes for the Hovercraft Terminal Sub-Committee, c.1968-74

letter from William Anthony Glynn, London to his brother H.O. Glynn, regarding gale and loss of two pilot boats, 13 February 1866

declaration of trust of 1/16 share in pilot cutter Neptune of Cowes owned jointly by Arthur Thomas Davis, Trinity Pilot, Emma Charlotte Caws, Caroline Amelia Burden and Ellen Louisa Davis, 1901

bargain and sale for one newly built boat, between Robert More of Hethe, Hants and William Oglander of Bewley, gentleman, 14 March 1590/1

photocopy of contract for the building of the HMS Jersey, a frigate of the 4th rate, for the Navy by George Moore and Joseph Ney, at Cowes, 1696 and delivered 1698

indented agreement between Daniel List of Fish House, Isle of Wight, shipbuilder and Rt Hon. Lord Yarborough to build a yacht of about 334 tons, 18 December 1824

print of the launching of the Earl of Hardwicke, whaling bark, from the yard of T&J White, Cowes, 16 January 1850

agreement regarding bankruptcy of Henry Goodall, shipbuilder, 1871

details of SS Wear built by J.S. White & Company Ltd for John Saunders Ltd of Sunderland, 1920

press report of the closure of J.S. White & Coy, shipbuilders, Cowes, 1965

photocopy of diary of Mr J.R. Glover, secretary to Admiral Sir George Cockburn, written onboard HMS Northumberland when conveying Napolean to St Helena, 1815

photocopy and transcript of travel journal of Robert Upperton of Hove of his honeymoon on the Isle of Wight, 3 - 13 May 1826

correspondence of Charles Mansfield regarding travel in South America, notably with Charles Kingsley regarding voyage to Paraguay, the San Vincente, 1852

diary of Charles Mansfield in Paraguay, including his voyage, 1852

letter from Major General Henry Oglander, India, to his sister-in-law Lady Maria Oglander, Parnham, includes references to the popularity of the Red Sea Line, 8 December 1837

account of voyage from England to New Zealand, 1875

letter from Leonard Blake to Ruffin Blake, onboard the Forfarshire bound for New Zealand, 8 July - 8 September 1879

letter from Florence Glynn, Hotel Belle Ile, Caddinabbia, Lago de Como, Italy to her mother, describing the livery of the boatmen, 11 November 1879

letters from Joan Hennard to her mother Frances Oglander regarding her voyage to the Far East, including Penang, Singapore, Shanghai and Nagasaki, onboard the Norddeutscher Lloyd, 1910

letter of Thomas Eyre to John Hawkins regarding hogsheads of white wine saved from wreck, 29 June 1674

details of the sinking of the Royal George off Spithead, 29 August 1782

account book for the Falcon, 1817-30

letter of Miss Fanny Oglander, Ryde to her brother Col. Henry Oglander, 14 August 1830, with reference to the conclusion of the Cowes Regatta

letter of John H.O. Glynn, Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Ryde, to Miss Florence C. Somerset, London, 15 March 1879, with reference to the Club

logbooks kept by John M. Morriss, of Yarmouth, of the Shengena of Wight of Cowes, yacht, 1968-75 (two volumes) & 1976-82 (seven volumes), with sketches

draft letter of John H.G. Oglander, to Lord Tennyson, regarding correspondence of Sir John Oglander, early seventeenth century, which includes `a list of proprietors in the Isle of Wight willing to lend his Majesty shipmoney - with their original

plan with photograph of paddle steamer, West Cowes, 8 January 1876

satirical drawing, by Harry Furniss, of Ryde Pier and travellers, 7 October 1891, which appeared in Punch

reprint (1896) of survey of Solent, 1879-80, showing soundings and sewage pipes

account of voyage from Barbadoes to Virginia, 1712, in which circumstances forced the crew become cannibals

sale of the Fanny, 1815

service record of David Wilson, boatswain of HM Sloop Blossom, 3 May 1830

legal case of Thomas Cooke, gent & John Bowler, gentlemen, v. Alexander Alchorne, gentleman and his wife Margaret, including rights to fishing in Brading, Shanklyn, Bonchurch, St lawrence, Godshill, New Church, and Shorwell (I.W.) and North Ch

Trinity House: drawings of Isle of Wight lighthouses and buoys c. 1970-80.