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Brighstone Coastguard Cottages

Brighstone Coastguard Cottages, south of the Military Road, near the cliff path. ....

Brighstone Lifeboat

The Brighstone RNLI Lifeboat was located in a boathouse at Brighstone Grange with a track-way down to the beach from 1860. Horses from a local farm would be used to move the lifeboat on its carriage ....

Brixton

Brixton - the old name for Brighstone. Also used in the name of the bay, e.g. Brixton Bay.

Shotters bus and coaches

In 1834, Shotters started a carrier business operating between Brighstone and Newport. In 1920 the carrier business was using motor vehicles and a few years later they began passenger services. ....

Sirenia (The), shipwreck - 1888

The wreck of the Sirenia in 1888 on Atherfield Ledge was one of those wrecks which greatly affected both the local communities and how they would deal with future wrecks.

On the morning of ....

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