Features & Stories
The picture of what one's native town was like half a century ago has grown somewhat indistinct with the lapse of years.
Mr Nelson, the clown in Bridges' circus, brought together an immense crowd on the Esplanade
Mr Edward Tom Ward first set up his bicycle making business in Ryde around 1878.
Sir Thomas Acquin Martin and his wife Sarah have a really beautiful memorial, in the shape of an angel and a cross, in the Catholic Section of Ryde Cemetery.
Edward John Coleman (b1834 - d1885) bought the estate Stoke Park, Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire, from Lord Taunton, in 1863.
The townsfolk of Ryde will have witnessed many Fleet Reviews in The Solent.
William Arnold Bromfield wrote the FLORA VECTENSIS a description of the flowering plants and ferns of the Isle of Wight.
The oldest commissioned officer in her Majesty's navy, Admiral Philip Westphal died at Ryde on Tuesday 16 March 1880 aged 98 years.
“Brake” has for some years been a famous public character on the steam-boat pier at Southsea