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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June 1926

Isle of Wight County Press

Jun 5th 1926:  WESTERN ESPLANADE – A delay in the transport of materials for the erection of a bandstand and shelter was caused by the recent strike.  The work was to have been completed by Whitsuntide.  A considerable portion of the iron-work has been delivered during the week, and the first stages of the erection have been taken.

Jun 5th 1926:  CONGREGATIONAL BAZAAR – To raise funds for renewing the heating apparatus at Elmfield Congregation Church and purchasing a piano for the school, a well-supported bazaar was held in the school on Thursday.  Mrs. G. PALMER-LEWIS performed the opening ceremony.

Jun 5th 1926:  VOLUNTEER STEAMER CAPTAIN – The grateful appreciation of the season ticket-holders using the boat service between Ryde and Portsmouth during the strike took a tangible form on Wednesday week, when Mr. R. STOWER, of Ryde, the volunteer captain who ran the Southern Railway steamer Duchess of Albany, was presented with an inscribed silver cigarette box. The Mayor of Portsmouth (Mr. F. J. PRIVETT, T.C.) made the presentation at the City-hall, Portsmouth, and said the whole city was deeply grateful to Mr. STOWER.  When he volunteered, they were very confident that after his service in the Mercantile Marine and during the war, they could safely place the boat under his command.

Jun 5th 1926:  FOOT-AND-MOUTH – An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed at Pound Dairy, Lower Bettesworth-road, Haylands, near Ryde, on the 17th ult.  All the animals (29) on the premises were destroyed.  Every possible step had been taken to prevent the spread of the disease.  Fortunately, the disease had been confined to the place where it broke out.  That was no doubt due to the prompt measures taken by Mr. J. Cowper BLAKE, M.R.C.V.S., as soon as the matter was reported.

Jun 12th 1926:  CINEMA’S CHANGE HANDS – Mr. A. HILL, proprietor of the Scala Theatre and the newly-erected Grand at Newport, has acquired the Royalty and Victoria-hall picture houses at Cowes.

Jun 12th 1926:  ST. JAMES SALE OF WORK – The delightful little old-world garden of Carnforth, Lind-place, lent by the Misses NEVILLE, was the scene of a successful sale of work on Thursday in aid of the St. James Church Renovation Fund.  The Incumbent (the Rev. R. S. EDDLESTONE) performed the opening and tendered thanks to Miss NEVILLE for her able organisation of the affair.  (More about the Misses Neville here)

Jun 19th 1926:  THEATRE ROYAL – Mr. H. Terry WOOD, who has been proprietor and manager of the Theatre Royal for 14 years, has accepted a substantial offer from a big London syndicate for the theatre and cinema.  It was on July 1, 1912, that the theatre came under Mr. WOOD’s management, the previous owners having been the new Bioscope Co.  Since that time, it has developed and risen to such an extent in public favour as to become one of the most successful establishments of its kind on the Island.

Jun 19th 1926:  CHILDREN’S COURT = Four schoolboys, two aged 13 and the other two 14, belonging to the Weeks district, were summoned for damaging grass valued at 5s. in a meadow belonging to Mr. George DENHAM, dairyman, of Pearl Villa, Millward-road, Ryde.  Each admitted being in the field but denied causing the damage.  DENHAM said he had visited the field, of which he was the occupier, at Weeks-road.  The grass had been laid up for cutting.  He saw four boys playing cricket.  On catching sight of witness, they ran away. A Mother of one of the boys said they had always played in the field: there was no notice to keep children out.  The Bench imposed a fine on each defendant of 2s.6d.

Jun 26th 1926:  ST. GEORGE’S SCHOOL – Major H. Du BUISSON, O.B.E., district commissioner of the Boy Scouts’ Association, reviewed the school troupe on Thursday afternoon, and complimented them on their smart turn-out.  In the course of a short address, he gave the boys some useful advice as to their course of action while in camp in France this summer.  Subsequently Major Du BUISSON opened the school miniature rifle range by firing the first shot.  He congratulated the boys on being the first school, so far as he knew, to have their own rifle range in the neighbourhood.  (More about Major Henry Du Buisson here)