Local History Articles 2020

Ventnor & District Local History History Articles from 2020

Articles are listed in alphabetical order by title.
(No articles published in the first half of the year due to Covid 19 pandemic)

A-B

Annie Bucket’s [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 10 December 2020]

Before they were famous: the Winter Gardens summer 1965 [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 10 September 2020]

Bonchurch Shops a Century Ago [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 15 October 2020]

Bowling in Ventnor 1 – 1886-1926 [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 30 July 2020]

Bowling in Ventnor 2 – 1927 – 2020 [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 6 August 2020]

Building the Eastern Esplanade [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 13 August 2020]

C-L

Christmas Week 1950 [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 24 December 2020]

Cook’s Castle – Gone but not forgotten [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 9 July 2020]

Green with seasickness on the Dandie Dinmont [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 27 August 2020]

Happy memories – Ventnor putting greens in the 1960s [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 2 July 2020]

Henry de Vere Stacpoole [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 3 December 2020]

Innell Jolliffe – Newspaper Owner [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 1 October 2020]

The Island’s first super cinema [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 3 September 2020]

M-R

Michael Hoy (pt 1) [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 29 October 2020]

Michael Hoy (pt 2) [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 5 November 2020]

Mill Street in 1867 [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 12 November 2020]

Morant’s Café and Terrace [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 23 July 2020]

Pier Destruction of 1881 [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 26 November 2020]

S-Z

Sea Cote, Madeira Road [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 8 October 2020]

Snowed in on High Street Dec 1950 [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 17 December 2020]

Thomas Hawkins FGS [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 17 September 2020]

Ventnor’s ‘Umbrella Surgeon’ [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 24 September 2020]

Wood’s First Class Toilet Saloon [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 22 October 2020]

Wyatt’s Stores : the village shop that survived [first published in the South Wight Chronicle 20 August 2020]