Features & Stories
Major J. C. Savage, late R.A.F who was connected with the firm of Messrs. Savage & Sons, bootmakers, was the pioneer of aerial writing in the sky.
The Meritorious Service Medal was awarded to Mr James Conway of Ryde.
In July of 1910, the news that a new and up-to-date steamer will to be added to the Joint Railway Company’s fleet of steamers for their service between Ryde and Portsmouth.
Knitting is not usually regarded as an accomplishment in which the male sex are proficient or even interested but Mr. Henry Steward, of Park Road, Ryde, has shown us a quantity of his work.
The public of the Island have seen the vermillion carts conveying His Majesty’s mails into Ryde for the last time.
With the approach of the winter, chess is beginning to be again taken up, and Island clubs are busily arranging for their usual contests.
Among a display of mementos aboard the ‘Queen Mary’ when she left Southampton on Tuesday on her last voyage was a photograph of two small Ryde boys.
During the week the Pier Pavilion has been occupied by the Willow Pattern Serenaders, one of the cleverest and most entertaining little companies ever seen in Ryde.
The new Steamboat Service commencing on Monday 14 June 1909, between Ryde and Southsea, also between Ryde and Sea View, by the saloon steamer “Prince Eddie” at popular fares.
The difference between rising every morning at six and eight, in the course of forty years, amounts to 29,200 hours.