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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May 1974

Isle of Wight County Press:

May 4th 1974:  SEAWEED MENACE – Batches of Japanese seaweed, Sargassum Multicum, have been located along the coast from Ryde to Bembridge.  Workers striving to eradicate the seaweed thought they had halted the growth, but it is now thought that the weed has established itself from Bembridge to a quarter of a mile past Ryde hovercraft terminal.

May 4th 1974:  SLIM FOR CHARITY – Mrs. R. REED, of the Ryde Wool Shop, High Street, has sent a cheque for over £53 to the British Heart Foundation as a result of a sponsored personal slimming campaign.  Over the last weeks she lost 12lb. Her sponsors were friends and customers.

May 4th 1974:  RECORDED MUSIC SOCIETY – The annual meeting took place at the Crown Hotel recently.  The secretary, Miss H. PROCTOR, reported a drop in attendance from 42 to 35 a meeting, but said the programmes had been varied and interesting.

May 11th 1974:  FALSE ALARM – When two youths failed to see their friend board the Portsmouth ferry at Ryde pier head on Sunday, they assumed he had fallen into the sea and raised the alarm.  Within five minutes five rescue boats and a helicopter were searching the area.  The lifeguards found the two youths on the beach wading near the pier looking for their friend. Police check of passengers leaving the ferry at Portsmouth, revealed that the missing youth had been on board after all.

May 11th 1974:  HOUSE BLAZE – A semi-detached house, No. 18 Reed Street, Oakfield, Ryde, was severely damaged by fire during the early hours of Saturday.  The householder Mrs. Phillis KNIGHT, and a lodger, Mr. Patrick KEHOE escaped unhurt

May 11th 1974:  BEATEN UP -A good Samaritan who saw two youths lying in the road in Ryde thought they had been in an accident and stopped to help them—was viciously beaten up for his trouble, the magistrates were told on Monday. His spectacles were pushed into his face, he was severely bruised and his lip crushed.  Two youths admitted assault and assaulting a police officer, they were sent for three months detention and 12 months supervision to follow, and also fined £20.

May 11th 1974:  SCOTT’S GRAMOPHONE – The actual gramophone taken by SCOTT to the Antarctic in 1910 was a special attraction at a record recital given by Mr. Bill SIMMONDS, of E.M.I. Records, at the Prince Consort, Ryde on Tuesday.  100 attended the recital, held to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the opening of Teague’s music shop.

May 11th 1974:  TV COMEDY – Former “I.W. Times” reporter Raymond ALLEN, of Salters Road, Ryde, who wrote the successful television series “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em,” has written the script of “The Dobson Doughnut,” which is to be screened on B.B.C.1 on Tuesday in Comedy Playhouse. Mr ALLEN hopes that if the play succeeds a series will follow.

May 11th 1974:  GARDEN SCHEME – Cedar Lodge, Puckpool, the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. GRIMALDI, will be open tomorrow under the National Gardens Scheme, and in aid of the I.W. Botanical Garden Society.

May 11th 1974:  TV INTERFERENCE – A particularly bad example of this last week, a maintenance man told us it was because there was a large empty tanker anchored off Ryde and the TV signal was being confused by this huge mass of metal, he pointed out that the actual shape pattern of the “ghosting” was changing as  the tanker swung to the tide.

May 25th 1974:  TO THE RESCUE – A hovercraft belonging to Hovertravel Limited, sped to the rescue when a small truck driven into shallow water near Ryde Pier to tow in an inflatable dinghy became bogged down.  An SRN6 arriving from Southsea on passenger service, saw the driver in difficulty and after discharge of passengers returned to tow the truck ashore.