Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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RSHG Quarterly Magazines
RSHG produce 4 magazines a year, in January, April, July and October, these can be read online.

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April 2006 – Mr Frederick Adams and the Undertaker
A story from the turn of the nineteenth century, by a descendant in the present. While walking in the Cemetery on Easter Monday, 17 April 2006, Janette and I met Mr James Shaw, and his wife. We stopped and chatted for a while and answered some of Mr. Shaw’s questions about various graves, and the


March 2006 – RSHG Project Launch Exibition
Exhibition Launch : A Celebratory Evening Event Following a successful bid to the Local Heritage Initiative, Ryde Social Heritage Group held an evening event at the George Street Centre, on 21 March 2006, to launch the Group’s project about the social history of Ryde, and the new website. Almost 150 people attended the occasion. Preparations


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NEWS FROM RYDE APRIL 1862
We understand our little theatre here will be open earlier than usual this season, and will entirely be decorated and painted.