Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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In these progressive days it is only natural that merchants and purveyors should keep up-to-date in regard to the quick transit of goods.


One of the most interesting exhibitions which has been witnessed in this town for a long time is now open to the public at the Victoria-rooms.  It is that of glass-blowing.


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.


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.