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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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. 


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.