Features & Stories
Time-honoured Christmas is with us again. Houses are decked with holly and mistletoe; fires are burning brightly; merry groups are meeting; and the "waits" with merry and welcome voice proclaim the festival.
... I see the waterworks pump, with the old man, Parsons, pumping day by day...
In July 2010 David Earle Ryde Social Heritage Group's "Map Master" completed the preliminary mapping of Ryde Cemetery.
170 years before the successful completion of the Ryde Cemetery Restoration Project Newchurch Vestry met on Tuesday 1 September 1840 to discuss the proposed new burial ground.
...numbers of children are languid and poorly, suffering from headache and malaise from this cause...
"At the recent election for the Isle of Wight, a Riot at Ryde so terrified Mr Cole, agent for Captain Hammond, the Protectionist candidate, that he fell dead."
Valentine's Day is celebrated on 14 February by many people throughout the world and traditionally is when lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards and giving gifts.