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Scroll through our gallery of pictures above to see more. Following Julian Russell s pictures of Shanklin Carnival in 1972, many people commented on what they remembered about the Isle of Wight s famous carnivals. Lynne Young recalled when the holiday camps used to put in floats and some even came over from the mainland. Chris Rogers said: I used to play drum in the 1st Sandown and Lake Boy s Brigade band and I attended the majority of the Island carnivals, including the floodlit / torchlight processions. For the torchlight ones, we had to pin Christmas tree lights on to our uniforms and have the large radio batteries in our pockets to power them.