East Cowes - Kelly 1911 - Commercial and Private entries- Page 5

Territorial Force (8th) (Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight Rifles) Battalion Hampshire Regiment (G & H Cos.) (Major E. B. Cuthbertson, commanding G Co.; Capt. D. W. Ratsey, commanding H Co.; Color-Sergt. George Hammond, drill instructor), Queen's Barracks

Tiller Thomas, tobacconist & hair dresser, High street

Trew William, Master mariner, Yarborough grove, Yarborough road

Trinity Wharf (George Lee, supt.), High street

Turner Brothers, boot makers, Ferry road

Universal Meat Co., butchers, Castle street

Urry Albert & Son, furniture dealers, High street

Vine Frank S., baker, Castle street

Wadham & Son, upholsterers, Park street

Washer John Henry, coffee tavern, Castle street

Water Works (Urban District) (Albert E. Barton, manager); works, Victoria grove; office, Town Hall

Weeks George Denham, grocer, High street

Wells Frederick Staton, Royal Medina hotel, Medina road

West William Henry, florist, Adelaide grove

Wheeler Clara (Miss), shopkeeper, Queen's road

White Joe, ship builder, Clarence road

White John Samuel & Co. Lim., ship builders & marine engineers, Falcon works, Ferry road; & Medina works, Cowes

White William Charles A., seedsman, Park street

Wood Vincent Lowrie, chemist, Ferry road

Woodford Robert, apartments, 1 Stella villas, York avenue

Made a civil parish in 1894, under the 'Local Government Act, 1894' (it had been an ecclesiastical parish since 1843) out of the civil parish of Whippingham.

From 1859 the town had been governed by a Local Board of Health until the 1894 Act established an Urban District Council.

The church of St. James was designed by Mr. Nash, the foundation stone was laid by Queen Victoria, then Princess in September 1831, it was consecrated in 1833 and enlarged in 1868 and 1870.

There is a Congregational chapel, built in 1829 and seating 250

There are Wesleyan and United Methodist chapels.

The cemetery of 4 acres was formed in 1877, the ground being given by Queen Victoria ; it was laid out at a cost of 1,200GBP and is under the control of the Urban Council.

In Connaught road is a Catholic church dedicated to St. David, for East Cowes and the Royal Naval College, Osborne House.

In York avenue is the Abbey of St. Michael, a convent for Benedictine nuns.

In December 1902, Messrs. Arthur and William James placed the Frank James Memorial Home and its contents for a probationary period of two years at the disposal of H.R.H. Princess Henry of Battenberg, for a cottage hospital for Cowes, East Cowes, Whippingham and Northwood - the gift has now been made absolute, and in future would be known as the Frank James Memorial Home (Cottage Hospital).

The Frank James Memorial Seamen's Home was opened in 1894, for the reception of aged seamem of the mercantile and yacht marine.

The Recreation Ground, in the Park, consists of 4 acres presented to the town, January 1887, by the late Viscount Gort, and is provided with gymnastic apparatus of various kinds.

The late Queen Victoria presented a recreation ground and road in July 1898, in exchange for a road surrendered by the Council.

Parish Clerk, Edward Feltham

Post, M. O. and T. and Telephone Call Office, York avenue. - Robert John Chiverton, postmaster

Town, Sub-Post and M. O. Office, Clarence road. - W. H. Love, sub-postmaster

Urban District Council, Offices, Town Hall, Meeting day, every alternate Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Frank James Memorial Home (Cowes Cottage Hospital), Adelaide grove, East Cowes

Territorial Force, 8th (Isle of Wight, Princess Beatrice's) Battalion Hampshire Regiment (G. and H. Cos.) ; head quarters, Queen's barracks

PLACES OF WORSHIP

St. James' Church, Rev. Frank Crosland Learoyd M.A., vicar ; Rev. Ernest John Rashleigh Lemon M.A., curate

St. David (Catholic), Connaught road, Rev. Edward Hewison Clark

Congregational, Rev J. Owen Jones

United Methodist, Osborne road (Newport and Ryde Circuit), Rev. George Edmund Welch

Wesleyan (Newport and Cowes Circuit), Rev. Joseph Dickeson, Adelaide grove.

Elementary School; built in 1861 for 227 boys, 227 girls, 105 junior, 200 infants; average attendance 162 boys, 153 girls, 93 juniors, 211 infants ; Tom Watson Fellows, master ; Miss Beatrice Southall, mistress ; Miss Katheline Thomas, juniors' mistress ; Miss Rosetta E. Smith, infants' mistress

Newspaper - County Press, Miss Mary Jones, 15 Park street, agent ; published Saturday

Carriers by passage boat to Fareham. - Henry Ellis and Son, every Tuesday, times guided by the tides.

Water Conveyance. - Steam Packet to and from Southampton, Ryde and Portsmouth, several times daily