Features & Stories
Images of cemeteries, graves and wreaths, (particularly poppies), are prominent in November and at Ryde Cemetery poppy crosses will be placed on war memorials by families and friends in memory of lost loved ones.
Joy McPherson from Australia contributed her research into her great-grandfather, his brother and their families who were all resident in Ryde from around 1891 to 1923.
On Thursday afternoon Colonel and Mrs Cradock gave a garden party at their residence, The Castle, Ryde.
The first flower show of the season took place in the beautiful grounds attached to Buckingham Villa.
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.
The Cemetery Committee stated in their report that they were asked by Mr Chas. Langdon if they would accept from an anonymous donor, a three-light stained glass window for the East-end of the Church of England chapel at the Cemetery, also the alteration of the seating to face East and a lectern.
St Valentine's Day, was celebrated in Ryde with a fancy and evening dress ball at the Town Hall
