Bembridge - Kelly 1911 - Commercial and Private entries- Page 4

Young George, carrier

Civil parish formed out of Brading, 1894

Station on Brading - Bembridge railway

Station master - Walter Daish

Church of Holy Trinity with 430 sittings

Wesleyan chapel built 1844

Hillway Mission hall

Bembridge Fort is on Bembridge Down, a masked battery at Steyne, and a new fort, erected 1906, on Culver Down

Post, M. O., T. & Telephone Call Office - Miss Annie Osborne, sub-postmistress

Elementary School (infants), built in 1862, for 80 children , average attendance, 54 - (boys & girls) built 1833, for 150 children, average attendance, 120 : Alfred Smith, master ; Miss Elena Welcome, mistress

Police Constable - George Holland

Coast Guard Station - William Lewis Martin, cief officer, & 11 men

National Life Boat Station - John Holbrooke, coxswain

Carrier to Ryde - Young, daily, except Thursday

Steamboats run 3 times daily in June, and in July & August 6 times daily (except Sunday) between Bembridge and Portsmouth

Herbert Occomore, Rothesay, Foreland road, Bembridge runs two sailing vessels to Portsmouth for the conveyance of goods.