In October, our busy research team added 33 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Mr Henry John Linington, who for many years was in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin as a boatman.
In 1876 a number of benevolent Christians of Ryde endeavoured to do something to remedy the condition of the cabmen.
Following Ryde’s successful application to Historic England’s High Street Heritage Action Zone
fund (HSHAZ), the programme is now beginning to get underway.
In the 19th century the people of Ryde went to great lengths to provide entertainment during the season for the inhabitants and the elite who came to the Island.
Our support to a campaign to restore the plaques in the memorial gardens on the corner of The Strand and East Hill Road.
In September, our busy research team added 42 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Mr Alfred Edwin Macleod-Carey, manager of the National Telephone Co.
He was an old hand about Ryde, the police had repeatedly threatened to lock him up and he could speak English well.
It was built in 1870/71 for William Edgar Ratcliffe on a field which had been part of Stonepitts farm land. The house was originally named Ellington.