At the Isle of Wight Crematorium, the celebration service of Lights of Love will be held on Friday 10 December. at 7pm A time to remember loved ones. Refreshments will be available afterwards. This is a Bereavement Services event
In December 1898 the local press certainly had plenty of good things to say about the shops in Ryde. This brief excerpt extols the qualities of a few of them.
From the date stone on the east elevation it would appear that the farmhouse was possibly rebuilt in 1714 for Richard Rogers of Gosport, Hampshire.
On Friday 12th November, 2021 @ 2.30 in the West Street Cemetery, Ryde Social Heritage Group held their annual service of Remembrance in the South Chapel.
This last Tuesday 9th November, 2021, we were privileged to have join us, a couple from Worthing, Carole and Tony Smith, who have been researching Carole's family tree.
We would like to invite members, friends, and all who are able to spare a while to come along, to join us for a Christmas get together on Saturday 4 December 2021 from 10am till 2pm at the Ryde Cemetery Resource Centre.
November is the time when we remember all those who were killed in wars and conflicts, so it seems fitting that we feature the architecture of the Ryde memorials at Ryde Town Hall in Lind Street.
In 1905 it was proposed to form a photographic society in Ryde. The idea was met with a fair bit of scepticism.
According to the IW Observer 14 January 1922, Mr. Salter of Pondwell, knows the reason people do not go to church.