The Ryde Carnival 1892
This annual event will take place on Thursday, the 8th September 1892. There will be an innovation this year, in the shape of an afternoon as well as an evening procession. The former will start at three, and the latter at half-past six o’clock, from the Town Hall.
There are several vendors of fancy costumes now in Ryde, and, with carnivals at Ryde, Ventnor, and Shanklin, they are driving a roaring trade. It is rather flattering to the Ryders that, having originated the seaside carnival, they find their example extensively imitated; but at the same time it looks rather mean for these towns to fix dates so close to ours as they have done.
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This year the Ryde Carnival Committee have offered valuable prizes for the best cars and tableaux vivants, and already several entries have been received, so that we hope to see novel and good designs in this direction.
The line of the route selected for the procession is from the Town Hall, St. Thomas’s Street, High Street, John Street, West Street, Swanmore Road, High Street, Cross Street, Melville Street, Dover Street, Esplanade, Pier Street, Union Street, and down St. Thomas’s Street to the Terrace Gardens.
By the kind permission of the Ryde Lawn Tennis Club, these gardens will be opened both afternoon and evening. In the afternoon the prizes will be awarded at the Gardens to the successful competitors, and the tableaux exhibited and judged, and in the evening they will be illuminated with thousands of fairy lamps and Japanese lanterns. The gardens are beautiful at all times, but they look quite fairy-like when lit up in this manner.
In the evening a grand masquerade ball will be held at the Town Hall, for which the band of the Royal Marine Artillery has been engaged.
Anyone desirous of assisting, or who has any suggestion to make, should communicate with the energetic secretary, Mr. J. I. Barton. More about Mr. Barton here
Sources: IW Observer & RSHG Archive
Images: By Courtesy of Tony Gale
Article: Ann Barrett