This month’s talk will feature Andy Butler and Alan Clark presenting The Almost Magic Lantern Show, using scans from our collection of glass slides accompanied by recent photographs of the same locations to create a journey through time along the Undercliff from Blackgang to Shanklin. (This is a slightly revised version of the Ventnor Fringe… read more »
‘Passing the time on the Undercliff’: Speaker: Richard Smout This month’s Society meeting is on Friday 29th September 2023, when the speaker will be Richard Smout from the Isle of Wight Heritage Service, whose talk is about how our ancestors spent their leisure time, and the clues that can be found from archive sources. The… read more »
This month’s meeting is on Friday 28th July. The speaker is Paul Kingswell, whose talk, An Isle of Wight Postcard Collection, covers the history of postcards as well as the hobby of postcard collecting, and will feature a selection of cards covering various aspects of Isle of Wight life from the early 1900s to the… read more »
This month’s meeting is on Friday 20 June when the speaker will be Sally Kavanagh on ‘The Founding of Godshill School’. The meeting will be in Yarborough Masonic Hall on Grove Road, 7.30-9.00 pm All welcome – admission free to Society members, £2 for non-members. The photograph above is from about 1920 and shows a… read more »
Our next Society Monthly Meeting will be on 26 May 2023. The speaker will be Dr Jeffrey Mazo with a talk on Ventnor in Old Maps. The meeting will be at the Yarborough Masonic Hall, Grove Road, Ventnor (just round the corner from the Ventnor Heitage Centre) 7:30 – 9:00 PM, 26th May 2023 All… read more »
An Introduction to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Archive Just a quick reminder that the April meeting/talk is tomorrow evening, 7:30 pm at the Masonic Hall on Grove Road. The speaker will be Gary Newman, whose subject will be ‘An Introduction to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Archive. Admission is free to members, visitors are… read more »
Ventnor and District Local History Society 2023 Annual General Meeting The 2023 Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Friday 24 March 2023 from 7:30 to 9:00 PM in the Masonic Hall on Grove Road, Ventnor. Only members in good standing are eligible to vote at the meeting. If you have not… read more »
Speakers: Hazel Pullen and Sharon Beddard from the Isle of Wight Family History Society on The Voluntary Aid Detachment on the Isle of Wight, 1914-1918 The meeting will be in the Yarborough Masonic Hall on Grove Road, 7,30-9 pm. All welcome (attendance is free for members and £2 for non-members. Members please note: As there… read more »
28 October 2022: Ventnor & District Local History Society Monthly meeting. (7.30 – 9 pm) The Speaker this month is John Elton, with a talk on Seeing and Visual Imagination in Victorian England. His talk uses the work of authors and artists, some of whom visited or lived in Ventnor and the surrounding district, to… read more »
The next meeting of Ventnor & District Local History Society will be on Friday 29 July, when the speaker will be author Stephan Roman. His talk, Ventnor and the Struggle Against Imperial Russia, tells the surprising story of how between 1855 and 1860 Ventnor became a favoured summer retreat for Russians looking for political and… read more »