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To make it easier for you to find fascinating snippets of information on specific subjects such as Saving Lives at Sea or Rivers and Harbours, we’ve sorted through all the interviews and put together 15 different themes. Put your mouse over or touch the photos to see the theme names and then click to see more.

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Boats on trailer outside Uffa Fox's studio in Cowes

Boatbuilding

Cowes seafront

Boating / Sailing

Diver descending into the sea, crew look on from a ship called The Solent

Diving / Wrecks

Open boat returning to shore at Ventnor, fishermen unload lobster pots

Fishing

Trinity House bouys on quay at East Cowes depot

Navigation

People working inside Niton Radio Station

Radio / Communications

View of the beach and seafront hotels, presumably at Sandown as one hotel is the Seagrove Private Hotel

Regattas / Village Life

Island Harbour and the River Medina

Rivers and Harbours

Bembridge RNLI crew bringing tackle back to shore

Saving Lives at Sea

Boy in a sailor suit standing next to a Labrador

Sea Scouts

Shanklin and Pier from the cliffs with Culver Cliff in the distance

Seaside

SRN5 in foreground and AP1.88 in background

Shipbuilding

Shanklin Pier after the 1987 storm

Storms / 1987 storm

Cowes Express Logo

Transport

18 ton gun being hauled through the steets of Sandown

Wartime

Down to the Coast logo
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