John Lowe guided walk around urban Sandown
Biosphere in the Bays is a series of trails exploring our relationship with the urban and rural landscapes around us. Each trail is an immersive experience promoting a rediscovery of the different elements that go to make up the Bay. Biosphere in the Bays, inviting the community to explore how the landscape has inspired local culture and customs.
The Sandown heritage trail created by Arron Swaffer and Hollie Richards resurrects forgotten moments in Sandown’s eclectic and illustrious past. As the fabric of the town fades away, we are told stories that fall in layers to manufacture the origin of a place. A headstrong flame-haired poet scales the chalky cliffs of Culver, a radical journalist when not defending liberty cultivates roses and conscientious objectors show there is another way. These are the ghost echoes that are the roots of Sandown. As we walk, taking in the wonder and the debris, can we do anything to arrest the vanishing?
The original guide for the walk was the poet King Stammers in the guise of John Lowe (one of Lauren Fry’s Foibles&Follies). The walk takes around a couple of hours and the conditions are easy to moderate.
Map of the walk can be found here created by Google: Map data @2023 Google
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This project is made possible by Arts Council England and Isle of Wight AONB 🙏
