Please Note: We are now working from home.
The Studio and Art Gallery are now closed
Some of the Artifacts
that were in
The
New Worsley Studio
and
Little-Pearl
Art Gallery
Please note that these
items are not for sale. The models and artifacts will
remain in JHW's collection and have been moved to his home studio.
As we have had interesting feedback on these display items, some
new web pages will be crated in
due course which will include many more models and artifacts than
show here.
Shown in the montage
above are are:-
The gun-camera from a Battle of Britain Hawker Hurricane which
crashed at Cranmore, Isle of Wight,
See further info
on page jonzonline letter 3
and see painting "Return Fire"
The underwing airscoop from a Battle of Britain Me 109 which pancaked
at
Bowcombe Down, Isle
of Wight
(Also see further information and
pieces of this aircraft on pages:- jonzonline letters:-
Jonzon 2 --- Jonzon
4 --- Jonzon 9
The rope above is part
of some sort of kit aboard an Albermarle which crashed on
St Catherines Down, Isle of Wight, 13 March 1944. This was given
to me by Fred Nobbs who's wartime job was
to collect all the aircraft which crashed on the island and transport
them to two mainland smelting works.
The Luftwaffe metal went to Faygate and the allied metal to Cambridge.
The metal was not to be mixed.
Fred had his own holding yard in Ventnor which was regularly broken
in to by, as Fred called them: "Young rascals"
Fred has a super story about the Junkers JU88 which came down
at Yaverland near Sandown, IW.
This annecdote is part of the story-sheet to
"The Yaverland
Junkers"
which is one of our Echoes of
the Home Front series of art-prints with stor-es.
There were a lot of
small bits and pieces in the studio from variuos other Isle of
Wight crashes and
some from the mainland. Too many to list here.
Also there are some other interesting display items relating to
the wartime on the Ilse of Wight and projects of John Howard Worsley.
Above: Pistons and
engine case from the Messerschmitt 109 which
plunged into a long forgotten well in Greatwood Copse near Shanklin
on the Isle of Wight, 25 August 1940
The aircraft was flown by FW Gerhardt Ebus. To see more of this
story click on this lunk:
Ebus and the well
Hit this link
for Scale Models