Author: oliomedia

In the light of Covid 19 uncertainties, it has been decided to postpone the planned May 2021 reunion. Details willl be posted on this website as the future clears! Stay safe everyone!

I was interested to find your website after I had just done a recent trip to the IoW in October (2019) to visit the places where I lived and of course Carisbrooke. We lived on the Island for only a …

Catch up with Niall Munro Read more »

Thanks to Chris Clarke for this. Click on the image for the full size version.

Thanks to Chris Clarke for this. Click on the image for the full size version.

Mike’s biography is longish, so it’s HERE as a .pdf file to view and/or download.

I turned my back on Carisbrooke Grammar in 1967 with no regrets and embarked on a course at the Royal College of Music in London, where my principal study was the organ and my second the harpsichord. At the end …

Catch up with Jason Smart Read more »

The school seen from Wellington Road in 2011 – before the redevelopment. CLICK HERE

For lots more about Carisbrooke Grammar join the Isle of Wight Heritage Group on Facebook and search for “Carisbrooke Grammar”. This page is listed there thanks to Jason Smart. Somewhere in that group I found a September 2017 video which …

More about Carisbrooke Grammar – and its demolition! Read more »

I was not born on the IOW but arrived during Cowes Week of 1958 because my father had joined the Prison Service at Parkhurst. My first school was Parkhurst Junior in Albany Road, just off Honeyhill in buildings which are …

Catch up with Philip Hurden Read more »

I was an academic duffer at school, just not interested – especially in maths and physics. After leaving school I started out as an apprentice electrician at J S White in Cowes, I think I was the last apprentice they …

Catch up with Keith Capelin Read more »