Carisbrook

After the failure of the treaty of Newport, Charles was brought from Carisbrook, which is almost in the centre of the Isle of Wight, to a small fort called Worsley Tower, which stood above Sconce Point, to the westward of the village of Freshwater.

A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

We went from my favourite ground, Carisbrook, still standing but no longer a Test arena, amid the scrapyards and panel-beating workshops of Dunedin, to Lancaster Park, as the AMI Stadium was then called, in Christchurch.

New Zealand rugby's southern soul breathes ruck'n'roll | Eddie Butler 2011

The last Test match at Carisbrook, the "House of Pain" of New Zealand legend, had done its stuff by pointing to Wales's lack of resources.

Dan Carter dishes out pain as New Zealand thrash Wales at Carisbrook 2010

The Haka-performing muscle-men took time out from plotting Saturday's humiliation of Wales at Carisbrook to watch Winston Reid, Ryan Nelsen and chums pull off their historic last-gasp moral victory.

World Cup 2010 paper view: A glorious win for North Korea and Aussies rain on the Kiwi parade 2010

The Welsh squad are also smarting from the way the team conceded 27 unanswered points in the second half at Carisbrook.

Dan Carter dishes out pain as New Zealand thrash Wales at Carisbrook 2010

And then, quite unconnected with any of the above, last week when writing to the winning schools in the ACW/CTS Schools Religious Education Project, I realised that one of the winning schools was St Thomas of Canterbury primary school at Carisbrook...on the Isle of Wight!

Archive 2008-06-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

While on the Isle of Wight, one of the jolliest activities was giving out the prizes gained by St Thomas of Canterbury RC primary school, at Carisbrook.

Archive 2008-06-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

I heave rocks down it, as we in Fanland would offer rocks to an Ombwiri, and hear them go “knickity-knock, like a pebble in Carisbrook well.”

Travels in West Africa 2003

Carisbrook was full of activity, a remarkable feature in these towns of yesterday.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

After an hour devoted to visiting Carisbrook, the two visitors rejoined their companions, and crossed a highly cultivated district.

In Search of the Castaways 2003