‘Giving Ryde’s Past to the Future’

Historic Ryde Society Quiz Night Thursday 18 December 2025 at Yelf's Hotel, at 7p.m. for 7.30pm.    The Museum of Ryde will be closed from 20th December 2025 to the 17th February 2026.

Paving the Pier – 1864

Isle of Wight Observer January 9 1864

All the new portion of the pier will, in a few days, be paved with wood bricks, laid in asphalt, and, it is presumed, will be all ready for the locomotive in about a fortnight. Messrs Langdon, the contractors, have now a steam engine, with circular saws, at work, by which it seems they can cut out the blocks of wood to a nicety.

“Healthy Weather” – Popular prejudice calls severe cold healthy; and if it be, health has prevailed since New Year’s Day, but we know that the severity terribly pinches the under-fed and under-clothed, of whom there are plenty around us. Ice wells are filled with good sound ice, so the ends of luxury will be served by the frost.

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