Local Publications

The following list is not complete and does not form any sort of list of recommendation. Many of the smaller publications listed are only available from the local outlets, such as Dimbola Lodge or Freshwater Bay Post Office.  Please click on the Island Publications folder above to get a list of more general publications about the Island.

The West Wight by Donald A. Parr.  
Slightly dated pictures of the West Wight area.

Alum Bay and The Needles by John C. Medland.
Coach House Publications (1995)  ISBN 1809 392 03
History of the above area with some black and white pictures.

Freshwater Redoubt by Anthony Cantwell.  Waverley Press, Ryde, I.W.
The history of Fort Redoubt, overlooking Freshwater Bay.

Idylls of Farringford by Richard J. Hutchings. Hunnyhill Publications.

The Farringford Journal of Emily Tennyson 1853-1864.
Edited by Richard J. Hutchings and Brian Hinton.
Isle of Wight County Press.  ISBN  0 9510379-1-9

Alfred and Emily Tennyson: A Marriage of True minds.By Richard J. Hutchings.
ISBN 1-870947-11-8

Immortal Faces by Brian Hinton.
Isle of Wight County Press  ISBN 1-870947-13-4
Some of Julia Margaret Cameron's pictures with explanation.

I lived in Julia's House, by Joan Brading Grayer.  Wm. Pitfield & Co.
Dimbola Lodge from 1923 - 1941

Julia Margaret Cameron - Photographs from the J.Paul Getty Museum .ISBN  0-89236-374-6

Three Freshwater friends, Tennyson, Watts and Mrs Cameron. By Hester Thackeray Fuller.  Hunnyhill Publications  ISBN 0-9504736-8-5

Discovering the Sculptures of George Frederick Watts Om., R.A. by Elizabeth Hutchings.
Hunnyhill Publications

James  by Belinda Norman Butler. Hunnyhill Publications