CRHnews - The bubbly women of Wight!
They're forever ever blowing bubbles - this time with the beautiful backdrop of a perfect sunset on a treasure island in the south seas. known as the Isle of Wight, in early June 2014, arrr.
The Cap'n was on shore leave when he happened to stumble by providence upon these two bubbly women as he made his way back to the schooner following a curry in the rooftop Indian beside the pier.
Yarmouth is a town, port and civil parish[1] in the western part of the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of mainland England, according to St Wikipedia.
The town is named for its location at the mouth of the small Western Yar river (there is also an Eastern Yar on the island). Yarmouth is a crossing point for the river, originally with a ferry, replaced with a road bridge in 1863.[2]
History
Yarmouth has been a settlement for over a thousand years, and is one of the very earliest on the Isle of Wight
The first record of a settlement here was in King Ethelred the Unready's record of the Danegeld tax of 991. It was originally called Eremue, meaning muddy estuary.
The Normans laid out the streets of Yarmouth on the grid system, a plan which can still be seen in the layout today.
It grew rapidly, being given its first Charter as a town in 1135.
The town became a parliamentary borough in the Middle Ages, and the Yarmouth constituency was represented by two members of Parliament until 1832.
Until the building of the castle, regular raids on the island by the French continued, and in 1544 the town of Yarmouth was reputed to have been burned down.
Legend has it that the church bells were carried off to Cherbourg or Boulogne.
Yarmouth Castle was built in 1547. It survives, and is now in the care of English Heritage.[3] It is effectively a gun platform built by Henry VIII to strengthen the Solent and protect the Isle of Wight, historically an important strategical foothold for any attempted invasion of England.
In St. James's Church there is a monument to the 17th-century admiral Sir Robert Holmes who based his operations at Yarmouth.
He obtained it in a raid on a French ship, when he seized an unfinished statue of Louis XIV of France and forced the sculptor to finish it with his own head rather than the king's.
Yarmouth Pier was opened in 1876. It received Grade 2 listed status in 1975. Originally 685 ft (207.5m) long, it's now 609 ft (186m) but is still the longest timber pier in England open to the public, and is a docking point for the MV Balmoral and PS Waverley.
Several Sites of Special Scientific Interest lie close to Yarmouth, including Yar Estuary SSSI & Bouldnor And Hamstead Cliffs SSSI.
Commerce
As a port and market town Yarmouth has long had local commercial significance. It still has some boat yards and chandlery, and although relatively small in size
it still supports a number of shops, hotels, pubs and restaurants, supported partly by passing trade from the ferry terminal and by visiting yacht-owners in the harbour.
Transport
Yarmouth Bus Station & Ferry Terminal.
The Wightlink car ferry sails from Yarmouth to Lymington in Hampshire.
Southern Vectis operate bus services from Yarmouth bus station, a small building near the ferry terminal, the main route being route 7 serving Totland, Alum Bay, Freshwater, Newport and Shalfleet as well as Yarmouth.
To reach Yarmouth, route 7 uses Pixley Hill, which has caused some controversy amongst local residents who do not believe the road is large enough to send buses down.
The controversy was initially started by former route 11 being extended to serve Yarmouth and using the lane in September 2008.
In the spring and summer, Southern Vectis also operate an open top bus route called The Needles Tour which runs through Freshwater Bay to Alum Bay and onto The Needles Battery down a bus only road along the cliff edge; returning to Yarmouth via Totland and Colwell.
For the more athletic, Yarmouth is on the Isle of Wight Coastal Path.
The parish was once served by Yarmouth railway station, with services to Newport. Passenger services ended in 1953, and the track has long since been removed; the trackbed between Yarmouth and Freshwater has been converted into a bridleway.
Size and population
Yarmouth is one of the smallest towns in the United Kingdom. It had a 2001 population of just 791[9] (compared with about 600 at the beginning of the 19th century).
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British Racing School Newmarket me and Sammy
Hello! Yesterday (28.7.11) me, mum and Sammy went to the British Racing School in Newmarket. I was so nervous. The worst part was probably the journey ( 4 hours each way ) and we nearly got hit by a lorry half way back... But the motorways are always packed with lorry's. It was Sammy's first ever time on the motorway! ( Apart from when he came from Ireland, but that was like 10 years ago.. )
When we got there, we all got our number clothes and then headed into the next room to watch a power point on positions. It was really awkward as we didn't know each other... Then we got told to stand up in a space, and try put a position. So we all did and it was really embarrassing!
So then we walked over to the simulator room to learn how to get our balance on the race horse simulator and to also learn how to change our hands with the reins to make our horses go faster yet have better control. When it was my turn to have a go on the simulator, I thought it was really hard! Well, it was, but I didn't do that bad. At the same time we were doing that, parents were tacking up the pony's.
Then we went to the indoor school to test everything we had done previously. We took it in turns to change the reins and we got videoed by the instructors so afterwards we could look back and talk as a group on how to improve.
Once we had done that, we could hose down our pony's because it was so hot in there!! Everyone was sweating and smelly. Yuck. But worth everything!
So when we eventually got into the room where we could review our positions etc, they paused the video so we could get a good look on how everyone looked and so we could also say how to improve on things. Mine wasn't too bad... But I know how to improve on things.
Then we had to go home... another 4 hour journey back!!!!! I slept most of the way back. But its now about 3.30pm (when this should finish being uploaded) and I woke up at half one!! Big lye in!!!
Unfortunately, parents could not video the simulator, power point or riding in the indoor school. They could only watch/video us in the indoor school right at the very beginning or at the very last 15 minutes of it. ( Only because the instructors didn't want to have people in their faces. )
Thanks if you read all of this :) I just thought I had to!!
Thank you Sammy! You were such a good boy!!!
Oh yes, this was a level 1 training day, that is why we didn't do alot.