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 . . .

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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