Ventnor Heritage Centre

"To Collect, Record and preserve the rich heritage and history of Ventnor and surrounding villages, and share it with local and wider communities"

Becoming a Member |

Becoming a Member

Membership of the Ventnor & District Local History Society:

We welcome new members and encourage anyone who would like to support the Society’s work to become a member. Thank you to everyone who has currently joined or renewed their membership – we really value your support.

Becoming a member or renewing your membership for 2026:

Annual membership runs from January to December and costs £15.  Membership renewal normally starts in the last week of November.

You can now join the Society or renew your Membership for 2026:

Please contact membership@ventnorheritage.org.uk if you have any questions about how to join or renew your membership.

Gift Aid:

We are a registered charity, and you can boost your donation or membership subscription by 25p of Gift Aid for every £1 by completing this form: Charity Gift Aid Declaration.

Why become a member?

Society members have free entry to our popular monthly meetings with speakers on a wide range of local history subjects. We produce newsletters for our members, and a report on our annual activities and work is sent to all members each year after our AGM.

We are a registered Charity, run and managed by volunteers, and to pay our day-to-day expenses we rely on membership subscriptions, donations from visitors to the Museum and for research work, and income from sales of our publications . If you would like to support the work of the Society, please consider becoming a member.
[Registered Charity No 286848]

 


Exhibitions, stories, images . . .

Ventnor Cove

Ventnor Cove is the main Bay at the eastern end also known as Mill Bay. Ventnor diarist Mark Norman tells of landing there in 1835 to see a solitary fisherman spreading his nets to dry on a huge mound of red sand which has never been seen since! On the site where the Esplanade Hotel was later built stood a single storey wattle shanty, housing one family.  Crabs and lobsters were marketed from Ventnor Cove.  

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