April 1976
Isle of Wight County Press
Apr 3rd 1976: “HOE DOWN” – Ryde Area Youth Forum organised a “Hoe-Down” — an evening of folk song and dance at the Ryde Youth Centre, recently. The forum occasionally organise events that bring various local youth organisations together, and the folk evening was no exception, with members of various clubs attending.
Apr 3rd 1976: RYDE’S HOSPITAL GUILD – Progress in the provision of major equipment for the Royal IW County Hospital was reported at the annual meeting of the Guild and Past Patients. An electro-cardiograph machine, costing £642, the first phase of the current major project, has been presented by the guild to the hospital during December. The second phase costing £700, would be financed fairly soon. Mr. K. J. TRUCKEL, hon. Treasurer, reported a successful year financially.
Apr 3rd 1976: NOISE FROM BALLROOM – Mr. K. GIBBS, proprietor of the Dean House Hotel, Ryde, complained that on Friday nights after 11pm there was excessive noise coming from the Oasis ballroom, which had started in 1974. He said their clients are nice elderly people and families with children. Many of them had told him they would not come back, because of the noise. All the other nights of the week are alright, but on Friday the whole place vibrates with the music.
Apr 3rd 1976: CYCLING PROFICIENCY – Following a national cycling proficiency school course at Mayfield Middle school course, Ryde, all 13 pupils taking the course passed the examination, which included cycling skill, maintenance, and a written questionnaire on the Highway Code.
Apr 3rd 1976: FLATS FOR ELDERLY – Twelve flats for the elderly at Ryde, costing more than £100.000 were officially opened on Monday. They are located at Node Road, Haylands, and consist of three identical blocks of four flats, each for two elderly people. The flats have been provided by Ryde Rotary Housing Association.
Apr 17th 1976: RYDE GUILD NEWS – The Coffee evening held at Mrs. HARRIS’s home raised £7.35 for guild funds. The drama and the music sections were practising for a combined concert. The garden club met for a wine tasting evening. Suggestions for economics in the potting, using household discards was the main theme. Seeds for next months’ competition were handed out, also seed potatoes for the annual competition. The competition for the prettiest table cloth was won by Mrs. TAYLOR, and Mrs. JACOBS brought the best bloom.
Apr 24th 1976: CINEMA – At the Commodore. 2, Ryde, Burt REYNOLDS stars in Hussle (X). The plot revolves around a Los Angeles policeman investigating the death of a young girl on a beach.
Apr 24th 1976: OBJECTIONS – The Ryde Traders Association’s objections to the proposed traffic quiet scheme for Ryde High Street, are based on the fact that the scheme for Ryde is only a small stretch of Ryde High Street, some 200 metres in length, running from Garfield Road to Star Street. The proposed scheme also allows buses, delivery lorries, invalid drivers, shopkeepers and their staff, plus shoppers collecting purchases, into the proposed traffic quiet area. A Pedestrian precinct of a bigger nature is really the only feasible alternative.
Apr 24th 1976: LAST VOYAGE – One of the best-known liners seen off the Island’s shore over the last 20 years disappeared this weekend, with the departure from Southampton for the last time of the Union Castle Line’s oldest ship, Edinburgh Castle. She is making her final voyage carrying export cargo to Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and East London. Then she goes to Durban, where she will stay pending arrangements for her disposal, probably to a breakers yard at Taiwan.
Apr 24th 1976: EX-SERVICEWOMEN’S SOCIETY – A cheese and wine party at the Falcon Hotel, Ryde, arranged by the licensees, Mr. and Mrs D. C. HARLEY, and attended by more than 50 people, raised £23 for the short-stay hostel for mentally handicapped children at Newport.