Features & Stories
In 1909 there was much excitement for the Moses family in Brunswick Street, Ryde.
Mr Ernest Rose, of Green Street, who was himself very deaf, decided to invent a heaing aid.
On the first anniversay of the end of the First World War there were many still suffering and dying but for others there was hope and happiness.
All you need is half a pint of water in a glass, drop in a leech and tie a piece of muslin over the top.
A young couple met at the Brighton Deaf School and were later married at St. John's Church, Ryde.
Pay a visit to the corset maker in Cross Street, or the lapidary in the Colonnade. Perhaps you would rather hire a fast sailing cutter yacht or purchase a marine painting.
Ladies, we are told, are growing tired of lawn tennis. When tennis came in it was an easy, rather lazy, go-as-you-please kind of game.
What better street entertainment in the summer than a good old fashioned Punch and Judy show.
Suddenly they heard stealthy footsteps creeping up the stairs, and then moving about in the upper room. Burglars!