Ventnor
Ventnor is a place in the south of the Isle of Wight . The city had just under 6,000 inhabitants in 2011.
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history
After the connection to the Isle of Wight Railway in 1866, the formerly small fishing village grew into a health resort and was especially popular with tuberculosis patients due to the fresh English Channel air and the mild climate . Several sanatoriums were established and once a day a train called 'The Invalid Express' ran without stopping from Ryde to Ventnor to bring new sick people to the sanatoriums. The city peaked in the 1930s when steamboats regularly shuttled between the city's pier and Southsea. The beach is still popular to this day, although it is slightly smaller than the tourist beaches at Sandown and Shanklin.
Botanical Garden
In 1964 the Royal National Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, closed. In 1969 it was demolished and in 1970 the Ventnor Botanic Garden was established on the spot . There are numerous tropical plants to be seen there, including from Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Most of the plants can grow outdoors due to the humid and sheltered climate on the south side of the Isle of Wight.
Wall lizard
The walls around Ventnor are home to the largest colony of wall lizards in Great Britain. For this reason, special walls were set up in the botanical garden as a habitat for the endangered species.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Edwin Lemare (1865–1934), organist and composer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ N , 1 ° 12 ′ W