Hot topics include watering the streets and lighting the suburbs, who came and went from Ryde and the building of a new church at Swanmore.
Saturday 30 April & Sunday 1 May Open Days at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre with a theme of Weddings & Royals. Admission Free.
The IW Society gave the Conservation Award for 2010 to Ryde Cemetery at an evening event at Brading Roman Villa on Friday 15 April.
Our small Research Team, led by Ann Barrett, added detail to 15 records on the website in March.
It seems to be a great year for primroses and as always there are carpets of them throughout Ryde Cemetery.
A Talk by Carl Liversage on the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Saturday 16 April 2011 at 10:30am.
Admission Free
The Party on the Pier on Saturday 2 April was a great success. The rain held off and the sun shone.
The wedding between Princess Louise, sixth child of Queen Victoria, and John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquis of Lorne took place on Tuesday 21 March 1871.
To celebrate the reopening of the pier at Ryde Wightlink are holding a Ryde Revival day at the Pier Head on Saturday 2 April 11am to 4pm
Invitation to Ryde Social Heritage Group's quarterly meeting on 9 April 2011. 10:30am in the Heritage Centre, Ryde Cemetery.