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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Ventnor Remembered

Daphne Carter was a longstanding member of Ventnor & District Local History Society who, during the 1980s and 1990s, photographed the people, buildings, streets and landscape of our area. Daphne died on 2017; the photograph here shows working on an exhibition in the Ventnor Heritage Centre in 2004.

Her collection of thousands of images is now being made available on a dedicated website, Ventnor Remembered, a project undertaken and developed by Friends of Ventnor Library, supported by the Society and enabled by a grant from Down to the Coast.  

Ventnor Remembered

 

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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