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The Isle of Wight Festival was a very large rock festival that took place near Afton Down, West Wight in 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was notable both as one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and for the number of attendees, reaching by some estimates 600,000. [ 56 ]
On the Isle of Wight neolithic occupation is attested to by flint tool finds, pottery and monuments. The Isle of Wight's neolithic communities were agriculturalists, farming livestock and crops. The Isle of Wight's most recognisable neolithic site is the Longstone at Mottistone, the remains of an early Neolithic long barrow. Initially ...
Tank Overhaul is a Canadian documentary television program broadcast on the Military Channel (now American Heroes Channel) starting in 2007.Episodes are filmed at the Isle of Wight Military Museum as well as other organizations specializing in military history vehicle restoration and preservation.
Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat.
Military history of the Isle of Wight (3 C, 5 P) Monasteries in the Isle of Wight (7 P) R. Roman villas on the Isle of Wight (3 P) S. Ships built on the Isle of Wight ...
Isle of Wight County currently retains ownership of the museum's collection and the building itself. Today, the museum continues to grow. Staffed with a full-time director and curator and several part-time docents, it is open seven days a week and offers special events, research opportunities, public outreach and educational programming to both ...
Around the same time in 1901, Benedictine monks also settled in to Appuldurcombe House on the Isle of Wight, before eventually moving to Quarr Abbey where they still reside today. The nuns at Northwood House were visited in 1902 by the new King and Queen, whilst touring the Isle of Wight. [54] They visited the new convent there and its chapel.
The term Wihtware translates from Old English as "the people of the Isle of Wight", with the suffix -ware denoting a people group, as in Cantware ("the people of Kent"). [1] [2] [3] In the Old English translation of Bede's work, the term Wihtsætan is used instead, possibly as it was the more common name by which the group was known at the time of writing.