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A stroll Spring Hill points of interest GET A FRE LEAFLET W E SPRING HILL You are here / Ventnor Heritage through the MAP TO ACCOITH A Museum 1 M D YOUR PANY SPRING HILL A Crab and Lobster centuries WALK B A GARD Available in GROVE ROAD ENS B King Charles I Court Ventnor C P C St Catherine’s or West East Spring Hill go to time D Ventnor Brewery travelventnor.co.uk MARLBOR OUGH HIGH STREET VICTORIA to download ROAD STREET You’ll find one of our your copy Crab and Lobster The Crab & Lobster Inn as St Catherine’s Let’s set the clock back to the 17th century. There King Charles Cowes wasn’t much around here, apart from a scattering of would have seen it. Walk for just a few minutes up Grove fishermen’s cottages, some farms, a mill and the Crab Road to and Lobster Inn. St Catherine’s School on your left. In 1879, this was a convalescent home, run by nuns, for very ill Look just to the right, across Grove Road, an patients with tuberculosis. d the Inn buildings are still there, with a blue plaque on front. A local legend concerns King Charles I (left) who may have The invalids were treated with a bracing combination of fresh air and called at the Inn in 1647 when he attended the funeral of a exercise. Sadly this didn’t work for everyone – and the home had its own Royalist friend in . He was being held prisoner in mortuary chapel. Fishbourne Time Travel boards at Castle at the time. From 1910 children were admitted with lung conditions including tuberculosis, For 200 years, the Crab and Lobster was the only inn in town. It became a asthma and cystic fibrosis. It was thought that the sea air and mild climate social hub and everyone looked forward to the annual Crab Fair where trading could help cure these conditions, so patients would walk for hours along the and games took place. coast and up the downs. They had an ‘open window’ policy, which would have made it rather chilly in the winter.

The Chapel at King Charles 1 Court St Catherine’s. St Catherine’s is now a very highly regarded residential school for children with Next to the Inn buildings, you can speech, language and communication needs. see King Charles I Court which was built as a hotel in the 1870s. Many hotels sprung up as Ventnor became Ventnor Brewery known as a very fashionable health A few minutes down the High Street is the site of Ventnor Brewery established resort and famed for its therapeutic in 1840. The Brewery drew its water directly from St Boniface Down which each of the following you can see to the right above the town. air. King Charles I Court used to be Ventnor Heritage Museum known as the Crab and Lobster Hotel You’re standing in front of the Ventnor Heritage Museum which contains lots but is now apartments. of fascinating material about the town’s The first owner of the Brewery, James Corbould, was an excellent history. There’s a great photo library too businessman. He reached an agreement with the Ventnor Water Company including historic images of the High that water would be supplied at 6d (2.5p) per year for the next 1,000 years! Street (above). www.ventnorheritage.org.uk It then became Burts Brewery and, later, Ventnor Brewery, but that closed in 2009. OC K T K

C I ! T TIME TRAVEL K B C 30 SECOND CHALLENGE Yarmouth E CHALLENGE O A What’s the name of the jazzman who founded 2 MINUTE CHALLENGE Can you beat the T L Newport T E C What are the names of the cottages attached cheeky clock? H Ventnor’s legendary Jazz Band? Look on the board behind you. Be careful crossing the road. to King Charles I Court? heritage hotspots: Answers are below. Cross Grove Road slowly and carefully – your time starts when you reach the other side!

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VUHP Spring Hill BOARD 1 ARTWORK.indd 1 Freshwater 23/06/2016 10:49 1 SPRING HILL Outside the Ventnor Heritage Museum Find out about the Island’s royal prisoner... V and our local beer. Ventnor 2 WINTER GARDENS Pier Street, at the top of the Cascade Dance back in time to the 1930s. People have been coming to Ventnor for centuries to explore our very 3 VENTNOR HAVEN special town and experience the In front of the water pumping station health benefits of the famously The lost pier and the town’s goddess of health. therapeutic air. Visitors used to arrive via steam train or horse-drawn 4 ESPLANADE carriage – now you can get here by On the railings to the East of the Spyglass Inn car, bus, bike or a spectacular walk From smugglers to bracing sea water baths. along the coast or Downs.

5 BELGRAVE ROAD Car: Direct the SatNav to PO38 1PE – you can park at Central Car Park (charges apply). The Time Travel Trail On the railings at the junction with Church Street The art deco cinema and our famous starts outside Ventnor Heritage Centre (1 minute away). microclimate. Bus: No 3 runs from Newport Bus Station to Ryde via Godshill, Ventnor, Shanklin, Sandown and . 6 STEEPHILL No 6 runs from Newport Bus Station to Ventnor via By the bus stop on Park Avenue, near Ventnor , , Chine, Niton and Whitwell. Park See islandbuses.info The forgotten castle and award-winning park. Bike: Ventnor is on the Round the Island Cycle Route and 7 BOTANIC GARDEN close to the Red Squirrel Trail (exit at Wroxall). By the wall at the garden entrance A FREE heritage trail The site of a vast hospital for TB, the Victorian Created by:

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8 INDUSTRIAL ESTATE Our Partnership is a voluntary run Ventnor with Ocean View Road opposite the Industrial Estate organisation that promotes the heritage of Ventnor and the Undercliff cheeky challenges Travel back in time to the golden age of steam. – a beautiful, historic and unspoiled area at the South of the . 9 for children. VENTNOR DOWNS Sponsored by: Opposite the former radar station A secret bunker, magic well and ancient cemetery. AAtimetravelventnor.co.uk VENTNOR DOWNS 9 Take a tour of our fascinating ROAD TO town, stopping off at nine historic THE DOWNS P NATIONAL hotspots along the way. You’ll find AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL an information board at each of (NATS) the numbered locations shown on DOWN INDUSTRIAL this map. You can start anywhere LANE ESTATE you like and just pick one board – FOOTPATHS TO THE DOWNS or follow the complete trail. MITCHELL AVENUE Enjoy your time travelling 8 adventure! SOUTHGROVE GROVE ROAD SPRING HILL NEWPORT ROAD ROAD OCEAN VIEW 1 ROAD P M VICTORIA STEEPHILL ZIG ZAG ROAD BELLEVUE P STREET DOWN ROAD ROAD P HIGH STREET ST ALBANS’ GARDENS ALPINE CHURCH STREET PIER ROAD ALBERT STREET UPPER GILLS 5 STREET CLIFF ROAD BELGRAVE BB REWIND: THE VICTORIAN ERA DUDLEY ROAD ROAD HAMBROUGH 2 P GILLS CLIFF ROAD ROAD CASTLE ROAD BATH SHORE ROAD 4 ESPLANADE HILL 3 P PARK AVENUE P 6 CASTLE VENTNOR BAY VENTNOR HAVEN CLOSE VENTNOR PARK HARBOUR

UNDERCLIFF GARDENS The way we were: Ventnor High Ship mates: the former boating lake STEEPHILL Street in the Victorian times. at the bottom of the Cascade. PAUSE: ENJOY VENTNOR TODAY ROAD

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