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"

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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 2025:

Annual membership runs from January to December and costs £15. Membership for 2025 can be renewed and paid for:

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 by 25p f Gift Aid for every £1 you donate 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 . . .

Olivia: Portrait of a Life

Olivia Parkes (1881-1962) was born in Walsall in the Midlands, but for many years lived a solitary life in a wooden hut in Myrtle Bay in Ventnor, where local people referred to her as ‘Britannia’, and her life has been a constant source of fascination to local people and visitors. This new exhibition for 2024, inspired in part by the ‘Olivia’ art installation by Teresa Grimaldi and Sarah Vardy shown at Ventnor Fringe Festival in 2023, features a model of Olivia’s home (Britannia’s Hut) and is accompanied by an extensive board display. A new book, 'Britannia, The Extraordinary Life of Olivia Parkes' is available to buy in the Ventnor Heritage Centre, or by post from our Online Shop.  

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