Wayne Pritchett on Rivers and Harbours

I’ve certainly lived through a lot of changes down there because when I worked down there to start with of course, every day I went down that Quay the railway trains ran across the top of where the Medina flyover goes you see?

The railway was still active then. They didn’t stop that until about 1966, and that upper part of the Quay became derelict then because the warehouses up at Sea Street were disused and some were pulled down on that side which is now the Isle of Wight Council’s staff carpark and of course the other side, those other old warehouses where the Quay Arts Centre is and there’s some flats there and of course the Quay Arts Centre.

When I started there of course that was all active. The Quay Arts Centre of course was Mew Langton’s Brewery.