‘Giving Ryde’s Past to the Future’
Make sure you pick up your copy of the Beacon magazine (August issue) with an article about Donald McGill postcard museum. There is also a discount voucher on the page for entry to the Museum . Please note the voucher is only usable through August. Please come and visit the museum and help make this one of our busiest months for entry since reopening following the pandemic.
We are pleased to announce that our bi-annual Antiques & Collectors Fair is taking place next Sunday 14th December 2014 at the Masonic Hall in John Street, Ryde. Doors open at 10.00 am until 3.00pm Entrance fee £0.75 There will be a raffle and refreshments available. If you are looking for something different to give a loved one at Christmas, this might be just the place to come for that unusual gift. All monies raised going towards the running of the Heritage Centre. We look forward to seeing you all there.
Historic Ryde Society is honoured to have a shrine to the memory of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, in Ryde District Heritage Centre. A short, but dignified service was held in the WWI Centenary and IW Rifles display rooms on the morning of Sunday, November 9, 2014. Ryde Town Councillor and Historic Ryde Society Chairman, Brian Harris, laid the wreath on behalf of the Society and members of the Vectis Military Historical Association, who have loaned items for display. Return to Homepage
On the evening of Tuesday, November 18, there will be a book-signing with author Bernard Crossley, of his definitive new volume: Donald McGill – Postcard Artist. In this meticulously researched book, surprisingly the first full-scale biography of such an important illustrator, Bernard tells the story of his extraordinary life. At the age of thirty two he gave up a secure job to embark on the extremely insecure and at that time novel occupation of postcard artist. After retiring at sixty five, he returned to work at the age of seventy and at the age of seventy six he took over the running of his publishing company in addition to designing postcards, continuing to work right up until his death at the age of eighty seven. The book also explains how a man from a very straight-laced and highly respectable Victorian background virtually created and came to be associated with the saucy seaside postcard. It describes his skirmishes with the censors and the law, culminating in a show trial in 1954, and the disapproval which he also suffered from his own family. The author shows however that this association with the saucy does a great disservice to his work which featured an
The Isle of Wight edition of the BBC Countryfile programme first aired on Sunday, November 2, 2014. It is available to watch on BBC iPlayer here until December 2, 2014. Featuring Historic Ryde Society members Tony Packer and Vic Scovell, talking about their days on Ryde pier over 50 years ago, the programme also takes to viewer to other parts of the beautiful Isle of Wight. Historic Ryde Society was pleased to have been of help to the BBC Countryfile Production team during filming in Ryde in October. Return to homepage.
