I was watching this again today - and suddenly realised I was looking at my grandmother - then saw a young girl jump out of a changing hut and realised I was looking at my mother as a young girl. An extraordinary moment, just wish she was still alive to share it with her. Lovely stuff, all of them, many thanks. I must visit again soon!

I met my husband in Shanklin 60 years ago and we have been married for 55 years, I love the island it is paradise.

Thanks for sharing this vintage video. The sound track is nice.

These time can never be found for the youth of my time. Sadly I will have to grow up in a vile era. Wish I could have lived during this time for me it was more precious then gold itself. Such a beautiful memory to have been collected.

Lovely, all my childhood holidays were on IOW. I have been to many places, but IOW will always be no 1

You are not sad. there is a very special energy here that you can feel in your soul.. It calls me when I go away and lifts my soul when I return.. it's a truly magical place.. come and live here!

love the island so much

How totally awesomely beautiful.. and what makes it all the more special for me is that I live here! The music sang to my soul and the images remind me that no matter where I have travelled and lived in my life.. there is no place like home.. my soul is only ever happy here.. Thank you for sharing this xx

It's amazing how, despite things changing at the isle of wight; a lot of places stayed the same. Most if not, all these places are still here, either repurposed or still used as it was back then! The only thing that changed is how people looked. To think, you can still walk that same path a 1900-1930 farmer walked all those years ago...

Thanks Stuart for this lovely item beautiful pictures and soundtrack

This is truly amazing. I've never seen so much vintage material for the Island before. I very nearly shed a tear at the Newport pictures! How I wish I could go back in time and see the beauty myself...

Wow, simply wow!

beautiful film and wonderful background music...thanks for posting this

Brilliant! I was a boarder at Bembridge School between 1967 & 1972. I used to cycle all over the Island, including around it on some Sundays, plus cross country running! I am still a frequent visitor by foot and by car. Nice to see familiar places many years before I knew them.

looks like happy (maybe better) times and what outstanding music......i live on the isle of wight and this vid is truly beautiful, put a lump in my throat.....i shall foward it to as many islanders as i can

I live here, and i'm really interested on the history of it.

Another truly special video. Thank you for sharing them.

Just found this footage - absolutely beautiful- such a great snapshot in time - just wish there was more. Thank you for making it.

Well put together, lovely to watch, thank you :-)

what an amazing work! it is an enchanted island and i loved live there for a year! =) congrats and thanks for share it with us!

fantastic to watch,try to get over to the island as much as possible,not far from the mainland,but sure is a step back in time, i love the place,thanks stu for going to the time and trouble to show a great place

thanks for taking the time to put this on .

It is a very interesting movie, is a important historical trace life of this wonderful isle. In the future, I hope to visit it and spend my holiday. Greetings from Castellammare di Stabia - ITALY -

Used to live on the IOW my father still does at St lawerence I now live in Peru

when the world was a far better place...nice vid :)

its great now,looked even better then,thanks for posting

The song is called until the last moment by Yanni

This is so lovely!

I was born in Ventnor, live in Canada now (over 35 years). It's a HEAP better here in Vancouver, British Columbia than in the US (US is just a horrific place) but still want to move to Ventnor again and get a job doing something meaningless that just pays the bills and lets me stay there. I'd miss BC's mountains and lakes, but the Downs was always a nice walk. Great vid, thanks for posting!

Day at the beach is filmed between brambles chine and Colwell bay, and the bathing stalls were run by conways witch also hired rowing boat's to the general public, they no longer trade thease days and the old boathouse of witch they stored the boat's is also gone to make way for a cul dr sac of bungalows. Conways also run a tearoom above brambles cliff slipway ,that's no longer there either as the sea has consumed it to the waves of time. Nice upload stu. Neil.

what A beautiful video. I live on the Island now. I worry about how over built it is starting to become. When I was a child, There were many fields and out door areas I would play in within town. It seems now there is very little. It may just be Cowes this is happening too, but with all these new estates housing mainland people, we will need more and more to house everyone. I loved the video it's a display of how the Island should look. It's still a beautiful place, especially in the summer :)

That;s definitely in my plans, sooner than later.

Wish it. Was like. That. Now. No. Burnt. Down. Hotels. Empty. Shops. So. Different.

great footage

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could you tell me what warner's hotel Norton grange was called before it was a coastal resort?? there is a pic in the reception area saying the HMS manistee occupied it in 1944 but that ship was sunk in 1941 and there was no found survivors, it would really help as i am living here now and working at the hotel i am am interested in the history and cant find it anywhere, Kind Regards, Shane Mulligan

@xhappysmileyx Haha!! I remember island folk calling each other 'nipper' when I visited almost 30 yrs ago. Happy times. :¬)

whats the music from 6.25 onwards? its not the same as the earlier music by Yanni. its really nice i think

@ozmedia True, and it always was as far back as I can remember. But it was only on the island that I heard grown men calling each other nipper. Probably like "Our kid" further up north.

stucrabb - you say yanni made the song, and its from the album live! at the acropolis but what track is it? Regards Jim

@wordreet "nipper" is slang for kid, wee lad, youngun', etc. "Oi, nipper!" aka " Hey, ankle biter!" It's not just an island tern though, just Brit slang.

2:33 is along the road i catch the bus in the morning

ooops- Not an Island 'tern' at all actually, that's a bleedin' seabird ! I meant Island "term".

get back over here then

Birdiebin14 Perhaps you lived here in a previous life. Maybe you should look into your family tree, you may have had ancestors from here?

Well then if not "gold"en age, Then I'll settle for second. The Silver lol.

@ozmedia Hahahahaha!