Features & Stories
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.
Carrie Lanceley had just returned from a four year successful start to her career in London.
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.