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In October, our busy research team added 33 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Mr Henry John Linington, who for many years was in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin as a boatman.
Following Ryde’s successful application to Historic England’s High Street Heritage Action Zone
fund (HSHAZ), the programme is now beginning to get underway.
Our support to a campaign to restore the plaques in the memorial gardens on the corner of The Strand and East Hill Road.
In September, our busy research team added 42 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Mr Alfred Edwin Macleod-Carey, manager of the National Telephone Co.
In August, our busy research team added 42 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Miss Kate Hollis, who started her career as a pupil teacher.
In July, our busy research team added 34 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Lord Somerset John Gough Calthorpe.
This is an annual event run by Butterfly Conservation and the aim is to record as many of the commonest species as possible in the course of 15 minutes.
In June, our busy research team added 44 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Miss Elizabeth Treacy, portress at St. Cecilia's Abbey.
In May, our busy research team added 54 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Mr William Densham, who was associated with Marconi as an engineer for a long period.
In April, our busy research team added 51 biographical records to names on the website, including that of Mr Alfred Ernest Thompson, a skilful horticulturist.