Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Totland Bay -
- Marconi Memorial -

IN APRIL 1897
SIGNOR MARCONI
WALKED INTO
TOTLAND BAY
POST OFFICE
AND ASKED MT GARLICK, THE
POSTMASTER, FOR ASSISTANCE
IN HIS EXPERIMENTS
IN TRANSMITTING WIRELESS
MESSAGES. HELPED BY MR
GARLICK HE SET UP HIS
TRANSMITTING STATION
AT THE ROYAL NEEDLES
HOTEL. ERECTING A HUGE
MAST WHICH HAD COME FROM
THE ROYAL YACHT BRITANNIA.
MESSAGES WERE SENT AT
FIRST A DISTANCE OF ONE
MILE TO TOTLAND, THEN
EIGHTEEN MILES OUT TO SEA
TO THE STEAMER MAYFLOWER.
FINALLY THE U.S. ST PAUL
PICKED UP A MESSAGE
THIRTY-SIX MILES OFF
THE NEEDLES

A MEMORIAL TO THIS EVENT
STANDS AT ALUM BAY