‘Giving Ryde’s Past to the Future’

Historic Ryde Society Quiz Night Thursday 24 April 2025 at Yelf's Hotel, at 7p.m. for 7.30pm.

Archive Pages

SEARCH FACILITY IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS – WATCH THIS SPACE!

Here you can search in real time through our archive of over 800 pages of information from our older website. These are in an archive list and contain stories, images and old posts that contain some very interesting stories, all of which are a valuable source of our local Ryde history.

Title
“Hands on” display at the Museum of Ryde
1860 oddments
1860s Odds and Ends
1870 – BOROUGH OF RYDE
1870s Odds and Ends
1880s Odds and Ends
1890s Leisure in Ryde
1928 Council issues
20th Century fire fighting
A 1900 ISLE OF WIGHT OBSERVER
A Beautiful Spin – 1865
A NEW INVENTION
A new library for Ryde?
A New Musical Society – 1858
A Runaway in Union Street
Adrian Searle – Churchill’s Last Wartime Secret
Amy Johnson’s connection with the Isle of Wight
An electric Tramway
An evening at Ashey races with Tony Gale
An evening with Tracy Edwards MBE
An Incautious Landlord
Arcade Foundation Stone Ceremony – 1835
Arcadia – Spring-Summer 2017
Arcadia – Summer 2016 – Issue 26
Archived Newsletters
Army recruitment – 1857
Ashey Race Course
Bachelors′ Ball at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club
Bank Holiday Entertainment in 1895
Bathing at Priory Bay
Beachlands August 1892
Cab men′s Shelter
Centre Upgrade
Christmas at the Shops
Classic Car Rally 2014
Closing up of Union Street view
Cream Tea and Babycham Night
Diana Wood
Dinosaur Isle Kids’ Day
Donald McGill is officially open!
Donald McGill Postcard Museum
Dr. Noel Stimson about Royal National Lifeboat
Esplanade Gardens and Canoe Lake
Fireman Sam comes to the Centre!
Florence′s Poem The Dream
Grow Your Tenner will launch on Tuesday the 14th of October at 10am
Handing over….letter to all readers!
Heritage Open Days – day one….
Historic Ryde Society Annual General Meeting 2014
Home Page Archive 8th Sept 2013
HRS Stand at Hobbs Jewellers Festivities
HRS Talk – Tim Wander
Improvements at Appley
Improvements at Ryde Pier Pavilion – 1898
Islander March 1971
Islander November 1971 – Ryde Rowing Club
Islander November 1971 – Ryde Rowing Club
Islander November 1971… we shall remember them…
Isle of Wight Railway
January opening hours
Jo Cooper – Isle of Memories
Kenneth Hicks – An Island Legacy
Lady canoeists’ disappointment
Leisure in the 1900s
Life and Death on the Mary Rose
LORD PALMERSTON IN RYDE
LORD YARBOROUGH OBJECTS TO THE RAILWAY – 1852
Martin Jenkins
Martin Simpson – The Fossil Man
McGill and the First World War effort
McGill and WWI displays open!
Media frenzy continues….
Model Yacht Club Regatta
More Cricket Club News 1861
MORE RYDE TREASURES
Mystical Mist shows community spirit is alive and kicking in Ryde!
NATIONAL PIERS SOCIETY (NPS)
New Book Published!
New FaceBook App
Oddfellows Images come to the Heritage Centre for a few weeks only.
Officers and Gentlemen are amused
Our first wheelchair visitor!
Past Event 2018
PAST EVENTS 2013
Past Events 2015
Past Events 2019
Pioneering pier is 200 years old
Royal Victorian Weekend 2011
Royals in the new century
Royals Visitors in Ryde 1895
Ryde and The America’s Cup
Ryde Borough Election 1868
Ryde Carnival 1949
Ryde celebrates a coming of age….
Ryde celebrates a coronation!
Ryde Entertainments in 1875
Ryde Football and Cricket Clubs
Ryde Golf Club
Ryde Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
Ryde Pier is 200 years old!
Ryde Pier Pavilion 1895
Ryde Pier Railings 1895
Ryde Pier Tramway
Ryde Pier Tramway
Ryde Quarantine Ships
Ryde Theatre opens – Spring 1991
Ryde Ventilator
Ryde Working Men’s Conservative Association
Snippets from 1900 County Press
SOCIAL REFINEMENT IN 1864
Social whirl in the 1870s
Some suggested improvements
Sophie Dawes from Squalor to Scandal
Southfield House sale
St John the Baptist Church, Oakfield, Ryde
St Thomas’ Church
The Assassination of President Lincoln
The Carriers and the New Railway works
The Coaches of Ryde
The Diamond and Flamingo Clubs
The Hampshire Carabineers
The Islander 1967
The Islander 1968
The Isle of Wight Central Railway
The Isle of Wight College
The Isle of Wight Hunt
The IW Volunteers inspections – 1884
THE NEW BOATING LAKE
The Old Manor House, St Thomas’ Street.
The Queen’s Award 2015
The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2015
The Railway on the Pier – 1880
The Real Sherlock Holmes
The Rise of the Phoenix – again!
The Royal Isle of Wight Golf Club
The Royal Victoria Yacht Club
The Ryde Club and Theatre Royal
The Ryde Pier Baths
The ship that hunted itself
The Skating craze 1876
The stairlift is officially open!!
THE TELEPHONE
The Town Hall
The Town Hall Gas Lamps
Tony Packer
Tony Packer Room open for Conferences
Tribute to Tony
Tunnel used for the first time
Ukrainian ladies visiting the Museum of Ryde
Vectis Cycling Club
Volunteer Week 2014
Volunteer Week soirée 2015
Volunteers’ soirée 2013 in Ryde District Heritage Centre
Waterside Pool is 40
Welcome to Cyril’s Page
Well in St Thomas′s Square
Where is it?
Your Journey into Ryde – revisited!