Our final monthly meeting for 2024 will be on 29th November, when Paul Thompson’s talk, ‘Nothing to see here . . . ‘ will be about the recent archaeological ground investigation into the emerging story of the possible WW2 raid on RAF St Lawrence in 1943. As always, the meeting is in the Yarborough Masonic… read more »
250 Years of Undercliff Art, By Dr Robin McInnes Yarborough Masonic Hall, Grove road, Ventnor 7.30-9.30 pm, 25th October 2024 All Welcome Admission: Free for VDLHS members, £2 for non-members Image: Near St Catherine’s Point, Samuel McCloy, watercolour, 1882
At our meeting on Friday 23 Feb 2024 Alan Clark will be our speaker, with a talk on The Island’s Unstable Coast – a very topical subject! The meeting will be at Yarborough Masonic Hall Grove Road, Ventnor 7:30 – 9:00 pm, 26th January 2024 All Welcome Admission: Free for VDLHS members £2 for non-members… read more »
Our first Society Meeting for the new year will be on Friday 26th January 2024, when Jeffrey Mazo will be giving a talk entitled Listening to the Enemy: Ventnor’s Wrens, Bletchley Park and the Secret War. The meeting will be at Yarborough Masonic Hall Grove Road, Ventnor 7:30 – 9:00 pm, 26th January 2024 All… read more »
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 »