‘Giving Ryde’s Past to the Future’

Historic Ryde Society Quiz Night Thursday 28 May 2026 at Yelf's Hotel, at 7p.m. for 7.30pm.

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Historic Ryde Society Talk – Graham Street – The Island Bat Hospital

Graham Street has given a very attractive and informative talk about Island Bat Hospital in front of more than 30 guests and members of HRS at Yelf’s Hotel.  Bringing two bats and feeding them in front of the audience that asked various questions about the bats and the Hospital’s activities added  more excitement to the presentation, .

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Hear about Jabez Balfour’s unfulfilled plans for Bembridge.

Balfour (1843 – 1916) was an English businessman, Liberal politician, and fraudster. According to the Daily Telegraph, “Jabez Spencer Balfour JP, MP was probably the greatest financial fraudster in British history, an embezzler on a Melmottian scale dwarfing the far lesser con-tricks of Trebitsch-Lincoln, Horatio Bottomley, Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Archer combined.”

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