If you had a go doing our 'Where am I? Quiz last week you may like to see the answers.
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Some of the answers below also reveal some interesting facts behind the pictures.
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1. Verveine Glass Table Tops
The multi-colour bespoke glass table tops at Verveine Fishmarket restaurant in Milford on Sea high street are just a colourful and spectacular as the food!
2. Horizontal Tree in The Beach House Garden
The extraordinary winds on the cliff top have left this tree's trunk in a horizontal position. The tree looks happy enough and battles on in the garden of The Beach House in Park Lane.
The building was originally known as Westover and built by the Siemens family (of electronics and engineering fame) over 100 years ago. Westover was later sold to William Morris a British motor manufacturer, founder of Morris Motors Limited, and described as one of Britain's greatest philanthropists. The building later became a hotel and renamed Westover Hall. Another renaming took place to the The Beach House when purchased by Dorset brewer, Hall & Woodhouse in May 2012.
3. Gable on Parish Council Building
Built in 1889, the top of the building has a Flemish style in both the gable and window surrounds. As the building has no similar designs in the village it is assumed that this was a fashion statement from the day. (In other words; I have no idea!)
4. Milford Bridge (High Street/Park Lane)
In WW2 the words 'Milford on Sea' were chiselled off of the bridge name near the top copping stones. This was done to not assist any German invaders in identifying where they were should an invasion having taken place in the war.
5. Hurst Road on seafront near the Bowls Club
Former home of Montague Dawson RSMA, FRSA (1895–1973) a British painter who was renowned as a maritime artist, and an official WW2 artist. His most famous paintings depict sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries. (For more information, please click here.)
In later years, the house next door (now flats) was the home of Giusseppe Lund an internationally recognised metal street art sculptor & architectural metalsmith. Giusseppe created many pieces of street art, the most prestigious being the Queen Mother Gate at Hyde Park on Park Lane.
6. Noah Valentine Antiques and Collectables
Tucked in behind the high street shops, accessed by an alleyway between Ray's Italian Kitchen and Haywood Fox is a Tardis containing curios of all shapes and sizes.
7. Conical Roof on Coastal Bakery
The building and roof did not always look like this, in the past the building was square and had the village's WW1 war memorial on the side wall.
Parts of the memorial were lost when alterations took place. However, the village still has a War Memorial with the names of the fallen from the village which is used annually for Remembrance Services, and can be found within the War Memorial Hospital in Sea Road.
8. Millennium Clock
The clock was installed to celebrate the change of century in 2000. Originally, the clock was installed in the apex of the building, but around 2013 it was lowered to its current position.
9. Fossil on Cliff Top
The fossil was discovered when the beach defences were reinforced during 2021 and then sited next to the cliff top path about a 100 metres or so from The White House.
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10. Random Wall between The Lazy Lion and High Street Cottage
A piece of wall that appears to have no purpose in the high street is explained in pictures from c.1900. It appears that this wall was originally part of a shop front. However, why this piece was left when it appears to have no structural merit remains a mystery.
11. Civic Award for Pill Box on Seafront
12. Ramp to Beach Promenade
The original Milford on sea beach huts were destroyed in the Valentine's Storm of 2014. In 2017 a galvanised curved steel ramp was installed around the pill box providing access the new replacement beach huts and beach promenade. The ramp fencing includes a cut out design and a couple of cut out fish!
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If you would like to see some more historic photographs of Milford on Sea; please click here.
