Our next Society Meeting will be on Friday 30 October, when Mark Louis Earp will give a talk on Isle of Wight Pub History, with the intriguing title: Murder, Mystery and Manifestations. The meeting is in the Yarborough Masonic Hall, Grove Road, Ventnor, 7.30 – 9.00 pm as usual. All Welcome: Admission free for Society members,… read more »
Society Monthly Meeting: Friday 31 July 2026: Our next Local History Society Monthly Meeting will be on Friday 31 July 2026, when Andy Butler and Alan Clark will be giving us the second part of their series Ventnor – The Early Years. Andy and Alan’s talks are always popular, so we look forward to seeing… read more »
Our next Society Monthly Meeting will be on 25 April 2025, when Andy Butler and Alan Clark will continue with Part 3 of their series Do you remember? An Isle of Wight Scrapbook. This final part covers 1970 to the present day. Andy and Alan’s talks are always popular, so we look forward to seeing… read more »
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 »