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This annual event will take place on Thursday, the 8th September 1892. There will be an innovation this year, in the shape of an afternoon as well as an evening procession.
1968 - With Ryde’s 40 year-old Esplanade Pavilion nearing the end of its life; should the Borough Council go ahead with an ambitious plan to replace it with an “entertainments centre.”?
On Friday 25 July 1884, the Ryde and St Helens members of the Board of Guardians, with a kindly feeling deserving of the greatest praise, gave a treat to the workhouse children.
Sailing as a member of the ship’s orchestra on the Union Castle liner SS Capetown Castle, bound for South Africa on December 29th, is the popular local musician, Mr "Jimmy" Luff.
A meeting was held at the York Hotel, for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming a Ryde Bowling Club.
The signs of Spring are upon us, so why not take this opportunity to tell of Spring in times past.
Mr James was publisher of the “Ryde Fashionable Arrival List, Intelligencer and General Advertiser” about the year 1855, and was for many years with Messrs. E. and J. Wallis of 22 Union Street.
By special command of H.R.H. Princess Henry of Battenburg, a special concert was held on Thursday afternoon 25 April 1906.
This interesting old photograph was taken when building the Seagull Pavilion.
Mr Charles Doland Crisp was appointed headmaster of Ryde Upper Grade School on 3 October 1892, at a salary of £200.