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Posted by on Oct 10, 2017 in Isle of Wight History, Millman |

Victorian photo #49: Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight (100 Gems of English Scenery)

Victorian photo #49: Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight (100 Gems of English Scenery)

The author of this Victorian book seems ever-so-slightly less than impressed with Shanklin Chine, but when my great great grandparents George and Mary Millman visited nine years earlier (see The Millman Letters), they were enchanted:

While walking through the Chine, no pen can describe the beauties of nature which we beheld, the chasms & heights & depths & the natural rusticity of the place was indeed calculated to make one break out into Poetry if into nothing else.

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Posted by on Sep 12, 2017 in Isle of Wight History, Millman |

Victorian photo #27: Pulpit Rock, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight (100 Gems of English Scenery)

Victorian photo #27: Pulpit Rock, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight (100 Gems of English Scenery)

Pulpit Rock, Bonchurch, was so called because according to legend St Boniface preached from there in 710. The path there was certainly steep. When George Millman visited in 1892 (see The Millman Letters), he wrote:

…we had a regular knee-bending job over this, had to traverse 17 stone steps, round & round, up through rocks & cavities, until just to our left we glided by the Pulpit Rock.

It appears that Pulpit Rock is now on private land and may not be open to the public.

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