On Friday evening there was a brilliant assemblage at the beautiful seat of Apley Towers for about 170 of the nobility and gentry.
Dealing with the difference in behaviour of schoolboys in last century and their modern successors the Bishop of Portsmouth at Ryde School on Tuesday related how, in the old days, a young master taking his first class was greeted with uproar.
FRIDAY 12, SATURDAY 13 & SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER
11AM TO 4PM ADMISSION FREE
RSHG members are invited to a visit to the Isle of Wight Postal Museum on Saturday 27 September.
In July our busy Research Team added biographical information to 58 records on the website and for one person interred elsewhere.
On Sunday 3 August we took part of our WW1 exhibition over to Yarmouth for the day.
31 members and 4 visitors attended our quarterly members' meeting on Saturday 12 July.
"...I decidedly disapprove of the pole dance announced for Thursday, the committee would have shewn better taste had that amusement been omitted..."
The women of the land are responding nobly to the appeal made by the British Red Cross Society, and scores of garments have been received, but hundreds more are required.
