Cowes, Civic |
Meets at the Town hall, on the second Friday of every month at 12 noon |
CONSUL. |
For Belgium, T. W. B. Faulkner, 63a, High street, Cowes |
VICE-CONSULS |
For Holland, Albert Edward Marvin, jun, Princes buildings, Bath road, Cowes |
For Spain, Greece, Brazil, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Portugal and Republic of Uruguay, Thomas William Burnell Faulkner, 63a High street, Cowes |
For German Empire, R. W. Beal, Birmingham road, Cowes |
Consular Agent |
France and Italy, T. W. B. Faulkner, 63a, High street, Cowes |
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON |
Cowes Castle |
His Majesty the King, admiral; Marquis of Ormonde K.P. commodore ; Duke of Leeds, vice-commodore; Lord Redesdale G.C.V.O., K.C.B. librarian; Rev. M. C. Berkeley M.A. capkain; Henry Edgar Hoffmeister M.A., M.B. and Thomas Alfred Mayo B.A., M.B. surgeons; T. H. S. Pasley esq. M.V.O. sec. |
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS |
Cemetery, Newport road, Atherstone Damant, clerk and registrar to the burial boad ; Alfred Gladdis, supt. |
County Police Office, Birmingham road, Josiah Bignell, inspector, 1 sergeant and 5 constables ; also 1 sergeant and 2 men at East Cowes and 1 at Gurnard |
Cowes Dispensary, Cross Street School; L. P. Gibson M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., t. A. Mayo M.B., and J. W. Hudson L.R.C.P. and S medical officers; William James Marden, sec. |
Cowes Town Pier, Fountain quay, L. T. Wilkins, manager |
Custom House, High street, and Watch house, Watch House lane, John Stephen, collector, superintendent of mercantile marine and receiver of wreck, ; hours, 9 morning to 3 afternoon, Saturday 9 to 1 |
Local Fire Brigade ; engine house, Victoria road ; Joseph Billows, supt. Bedford road |
Recreation Grounds, Park road |
Shipwrecked Fishermen's and Mariners' Benevolent Institution, William Thomas Mahy, hon. agent, Birmingham road |
PLACES OF WORSHIP |
St. Mary's Church, Rev. Andrew Hamilton McElwee M.A., L.Th., B.C.L. vicar ; Rev. Cyril Edmund Carpenter M.A. and Rev. John Thomas Draper, curates |
Holy Trinity, Rev. Miles Cecil Berkeley M.A. vicar ; Rev. Clement Erskine Prior M.A. and Rev. Percy Heald L.Th. curates |
St. Thomas of Canterbury, Catholic, Terminus Road, Rev. John O'Hanlon, priest |
Baptist, Victoria road, Rev. G. Sparks |
Congregational, Union road, Rev. John Avan Rees A.T.S., minister |
Primitive Methodist (Newport and Cowes Circuit), Beckford road, Rev. Herbert John Sadd |
United Methodist Church, Mill Hill road, Rev. Ernest Flower |
Wesleyan Methodist, Birmingham road (Newport and Caowes Circuit), Rev. William Herbert Spencer |
Mission Church, St. Faith's, Newport road |
Salvation Army Barracks, Denmark road |
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL |
School Attendance Officer, Charles Edmund Burton, Pelham road |
York street, Elementary School; erected 1862-3 for 250 boys and 233 infants; average attendance 184 boys, 186 infants ; J. Dewis, master ; Mrs. C. Dewis, infants' mistress |
Denmark Road, Elementary School; built 1907, opened 1908 for 354 mixed and 384 juniors and infants; average attendance 321 mixed, 320 juniors and infants ; William Marden, master ; Miss E. Moore, mistress |
NEWSPAPERS |
County Press, 59 High street, W. J. Gubbins ; published Saturday |
Isle of Wight Herald, 5 Shooter's hill, George Fallows, proprietor and publisher ; published Friday |
RAILWAY STATIONS |
Cowes, Thomas Tutton, station master |
Mill Hill, Frank Williams, station master |
Railways, London, Brighton and South Coast and London and South Western ; passenger booking office, Foutain quay |
General Carriers (per rail and water) to all parts daily - Lancelot T. Wilkins, agent to the London and South Western Railway Company, Foutain quay ; Pickfords Ltd. agents to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Co., Medina road ; Sutton and Co. (Robert Faulkner, agent), Cross street and Shepard Bros. Ltd, Medina road |
Carrier to Newport - Samuel Mundell, daily from 'Duke of York' |
Steam Packets to and from Ryde, Southsea,Portsea, Portsmouth and Southampton, several times a day; L. T. Wilkins, agent |
Steam Packets round the Isle of Wight and to Bournemouth and Cherbourg during the summer months, from Victoria pier |
To Southampton and Portsmouth, by the Steam Packet Company and Pickfords Ltd. (goods only) |
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