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 »
Our Society ‘Monthly Meetings’ are back at last! The first meeting for 2022 will be on 24 June, when Andy Butler and Alan Clark will be presenting a talk entitled A Naturalist’s Lockdown. The photograph here is one of Andy’s, taken on Bembridge Down in December 2021. Andy’s talks are always popular, and since we… read more »
We are very happy to announce the return of our regular monthly meetings, beginning in June. Our schedule of speakers for the rest of 2022 is below. As in the past, meetings will be at the Masonic Hall on Grove Road at 7:30-9:00 PM, on the last Friday of every month. There will be no… read more »
Ventnor and District Local History Society 2022 Annual General Meeting The 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Monday 4 April 2022 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm in the Masonic Hall on Grove Road, Ventnor. The meeting will be followed by a short slide show about the history of the Cascade… read more »
We regret that our monthly Society Meetings are suspended during the pandemic. We hope to resume them as soon as possible.
The talk, by Nick Minns, will focus on the life and scientific career of Michael Faraday, with special emphasis on the time he spent on the Isle of Wight. The meeting will, as usual, be held at the Masonic Hall in Grove Road, Ventnor, and starts at 7.30 pm. Entry is free to members, while visitors… read more »
The talk, by Andy Butler, will be a continuation of his previous talk at the end of last year, and will be a nostalgic look back at what life was like in the 1950s and 60s. The meeting will, as usual, be held at the Masonic Hall in Grove Road, Ventnor, and starts at 7.30… read more »
Speaker programme for 2020: 31st January Andy Butler: The 1950s and 60s – The Way Things Used to Be 28th February Nick Minns: Michael Faraday and the IOW 27th March Annual General Meeting (followed by slide show)… read more »
The talk, by Mark Luis Earp, will discuss, briefly, some of the trials and tribulations of Queen Victoria’s time on the Isle of Wight, and how she reacted to and dealt with situations in sometimes a most unconventional way. Tales of the expected and unexpected. The meeting will, as usual, be held at the Masonic… read more »