English West Wight by Island Graphic Art
	With Queen Victoria and her beloved Albert setting the trend in the 19th Century, the Island enjoyed its hey-day as a literary and cultural centre. In the West Wight, Tennyson's residence at Farringford was a mecca for the literary giants of the day while just down the road at Dimbola, Julia Margaret Cameron was engaged upon her pioneering photographic work.	It was at Alum Bay that the world's first commercial wireless station was established, following the transmissions undertaken by Marconi in 1897. But history in the West Wight was made much earlier. Witness the bronze age barrows at Headon, the standing stone at Mottistone, the medieval Manor Houses, the scientific achievements of Freshwater's Robert Hooke, Henry VIII's castle at Yarmouth and the forts and batteries that line the Western Solent.