Posts Tagged ‘B&W’

Whale Stranding in print

Whale Stranding in print

Isle of Wight County Press IW Men in New Zealand whale rescue TWO NEWPORT men have been part of a desperate struggle to save a pod of pilot whales beached on New Zealand’s South Island. Former County Press employee Paul Blackley, of Caesars Road and Richard Harvey, of Field Place, were driving with friend Richard [...]


A Surf Club is born

A Surf Club is born

During the early 1960’s a group of friends had started to hang out on the cliff tops between Ventnor beach and Steephill Cove. These bored teenagers soon began to focus their attention on the ocean. The Island at that time still had many unexplored pockets of coastline or so it felt to this group of friends. The ocean soon became their playground.


The History Wall

The History Wall

Gallery of the images that were displayed on the ‘history wall’ at the opening wight surf history exhibition


Surf Photography Exhibition at Dimbola Lodge

Surf Photography Exhibition at Dimbola Lodge

We had a great run of swell to coincide with the opening of the ‘Wight Surf History’ exhibition on Friday the 17th January 2010


A salute to Wight Surf History

A salute to Wight Surf History

January 2010 sees the project to document and celebrate 50 years of surfing on the Isle of Wight get underway


Big Wednesday

Big Wednesday

Double overhead sets at Freshwater Bay can seem pretty intimidating when you come face to face with them in reality