Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.

Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

Updates to this section

This section will be researched in local newspapers, records and people's memories. If you have a story you would like to contribute, please contact us.

If you have a personal anecdote or memory to share for this section, please contact us. It might be a date of a marriage of your ancestors, or a story passed through the generations of some event, or heroic endeavour – we are looking for events in Ryde 150 years ago, 125 and 100 years ago, 75 or 50 years ago, in the relevent month.

Please let us know if you have something to share.