June 1976
Isle of Wight County Press
Jun 5th 1976: GRASS FIRE – Ryde fire brigade was called out twice on Monday. A fault in the automatic warning system sent firemen to the Royal IW County Hospital nurses’ home at Adelaide Place in the morning. In the afternoon they extinguished blazing grass behind Waterloo Crescent at Binstead.
Jun 12th 1976: RUBBING ENTHUSIASTS – There are over 8,000 memorial brasses in churches all over the country, and taking rubbings from them is a fast growing and inexpensive hobby. One Island family who have been bitten by the bug are the HARROPS, of Nelson Street, Ryde. It’s a way of creating something beautiful and rather decorative instantly. It needs no training. Anyone can have a go, all you need is patience. They first became interested about ten years ago, during a visit to Westminster Abbey.
Jun 12th 1976: PRESENTATION OF A TV – Ryde’s Carnival Association, busy planning events including this year’s carnival, have presented a television, bought from part of the proceeds of the 1975 carnival, to the Royal IW County Hospital, Ryde. The portable black and white set is to be used by general medical ward patients.
Jun 19th 1976: THE JUNIOR CHOICE – Sharon WEST, aged 11, of 64 Slade Road, Ryde, is this year’s Ryde junior carnival queen. The Bishop Lovett Middle School pupil was picked out from an entry of 45 girls from the Ryde area by a panel of judges from other parts of the Island. Second and third in the competition (Sharon’s two attendants), were Helen SCOVELL and Melanie HARRIS. The 18-year-old senior carnival queen, presented the winners with sashes and poses of flowers. Boxes of sweets were also presented to all entrants.
Jun 19th 1976: ALL IN A DAY’S WORK – The Ryde-based Trinity House pilot launch, “Vanquisher,” went to the Nab Tower lighthouse off Bembridge on Sunday to take off the assistant keeper, who was suffering from a back injury. The keeper, Mr. Jack STANLEY, was landed at Ryde pier head and taken by waiting ambulance to the Royal IW County Hospital. A relief keeper was taken by pilot launch to the Nab Tower the same evening.
Jun 19th 1976: DISPLAY WINNER – Mr. D. GREENHAM, managing director of Islandwide (I.C. Ltd), Ryde, was one of ten carpet retailers in the country to win a radio cassette player in a window display competition, organised by Monsanto Ltd., to publicise one of their brands of carpet.
Jun 19th 1976: VACCINE STOLEN – Two phials of anti-tetanus vaccine were stolen from the casualty department at the Royal IW County Hospital, Ryde, on Sunday. A police spokesman said an overdose would be dangerous.
Jun 19th 1976: MISSING – Are there any items in Island homes from the old Ryde Museum, which closed in 1915? Mr. D. TOMALIN, assistant curator of Carisbrooke Castle Museum, wants to know. Mr. Tomalin has for some time been interested in tracking down the Ryde Museum collection, which disappeared by the end of the First World War. It included fine examples of Bronze Age urns. Mr. TOMLIN has found that in 1915 councillors were told they could keep items in their homes until a suitable place could be found to house them after the war.
Jun 26th 1976: PLANS FOR HOSPITAL DROPPED – Plans to build a private hospital at Carters Road, Ryde, have been dropped and the land is to be put up for sale. Mr. A. K. FRESLE, chairman and managing director of the IW Private Nursing Homes Ltd., said he was forced to make the decision because of Government policy. He said a total of 18 NHS beds are to be phased out. The hospital would have attracted and kept consultants on the Island, who could have worked at the hospital in their spare time, and would have created nursing employment.
Jun 26th 1976: MARKET – A proposal to use a site in George Street, Ryde, as a one-day a week open market, was agreed for the matter to be discussed by the full council. The market should be authorised for 20 days in each calendar year as an alternative outlet for trade.