You are invited to come and join us for our meeting at the George Street Centre on Saturday 8 July 10:30am till 12:30pm. Catch up with the latest news from the group, and enjoy a presentation by Kevin Shaw called ‘Best of Times, Worst of Times.’
Ryde Social Heritage Group held their annual Summer Open Days at Ryde Cemetery Heritage and Learning Centre during the weekend of 17 and 18 June. The event was blessed with clear skies and high temperatures throughout.
To mark the bicentennial of Jane Austen's death, Ryde Social Heritage Group will present ‘Regency Ryde Characters’ on Tuesday 20 June 2017, 2pm at Ryde Library.
The writing on the wall at 9 Church Mews, Church Lane, Ryde. You can make out the words if you study it a while.
In May, our busy research team added 37 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Major Henry William Dennie.
This relates to a well known Ryde grocery and corn merchant business. Photographed in upper High Street.
Quack medicines and their advertising were big business in Victorian times. Squire Knight's eye ointment claimed to cure all diseases of the eye, approaching even to blindness.
On Friday 5th May 2017 Ryde Social Heritage Group were invited by U3A to give them a presentation on the work and activities of RSHG and this took place at the Church Close Social Club in Wootton Bridge.
On Friday 5th May at 11 o’clock, a very moving 75th Anniversary Commemoration took place at Ryde Cemetery
We invite you to come and join us at the Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre any time between 10.30am and 4pm, for our Open Days on 17th and 18th June.