Local History Articles 2015
Ventnor & District Local History History Articles from 2015
Albert Street School 1: Victorian Days [October 2015]
Albert Street School 2: From 1901 to D-Day [October 2015]
Albert Street School 3: The 1950s – the final years [October 2015]
Are You Being Served? Sharpe’s Department Store – Part 1 [July 2015]
Are You Being Served? Sharpe’s Department Store – Part 2 [July 2015]
The Cascade, Ventnor [October 2015]
Coach, Horse and Slipper [November 2015]
F – G
Far from Ventnor: John Frederick Bligh Livesay – Canadian Journalist [May 2015]
St John’s House – From Florist to Calves Foot Jelly [October 2015]
Furnishing your home: Sharpe’s in Spring Hill [December 2015]
Growing up in Whitwell: Part 1 – the 1930s [November 2015]
Growing up in Whitwell: Part 2 – the 1940s [November 2015]
H – N
Hillside Hotel Part 1: Origins and Ownership [April 2015]
Hillside Hotel Part 2: the Mitchells and later ownership [April 2015]
John (‘Jack’) Jenkins of the IOW Rifles [August 2015]
The Local Government of Ventnor [June 2015]
Longdown Infants Part 1 [August 2015]
Longdown Infants Part 2 – Coronation Day 1953 [September 2015]
Mark Norman – Geologist, Diarist, Politician, Fishmonger, Parent . . .
A New Harbour for Ventnor 1: 1863 – Ventnor Celebrates [July 2015]
A New Harbour for Ventnor 2: 1864 – Tugboat to Littlehampton [August 2015]
P – S
Pound Lane celebrates VJ-Day [August 2015]
School Days: Ventnor Secondary Modern School 1953-4 [July 2015]
Sharpe’s Christmas Bazaar – December 1909 [December 2015]
Shipwrecks 1: HMS Eurydice [April 2015]
Shipwrecks 2: The Clarendon [April 2015]
Shipwrecks 3: The Underley [May 2015]
T – V
A Tale of Two Shops 1: Trueman – Tailor and Hatter [September 2015]
A Tale of Two Shops 2: ‘Fitze Modes’ [September 2015]
Ventnor & Bonchurch Literary and Scientific Institution in 1910 [May 2015]
A Ventnor childhood in the 1880s – Frederick Livesay Part 1 [November 2015]
A Ventnor childhood in the 1880s – Frederick Livesay Part 2 [November 2015]
Ventnor Esplanade in the 1860s [February 2015]
Ventnor Families: The Field Family – Waving a Last Goodbye [March 2015]
Ventnor’s Fire Brigade from the 1920s [1 October 2015]
W – Z
The Wednesday Junior Football Team [March 2015]
Were you there when the Pier re-opened in the summer of 1955? [May 2015]
Were you there when Ventnor was bombed? [June 2015]
A WW2 Childhood in Ventnor by Marigold Harding – Part 1: Home Life [June 2015]
A WW2 Childhood in Ventnor by Marigold Harding – Part 2: Raids on Ventnor [June 2015]
A WW2 Childhood in Ventnor by Marigold Harding – Part 3: In the Country [June 2015]