Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Architecture

Congregational School Room

Side view of the Congregational School room (right) built c1856 – photographed in 1973

The school room in Melville Street was saved when a fire destroyed the church in 1869.

The Congregational Church in the photograph (left) on the corner of George Street and Melville Street, was built in 1871-72 by Arch. R. F. Jones to replace the church which was destroyed by fire in 1869. – photograph taken 1969

Images from the RSHG Archive Roy Brinton Collection