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 Bay in the 1890s

The spectacular sight of Ventnor's ascending terraces in the early 1890s, as viewed from the pierhead. Bathing machines are lined up along the water's edge for this was a time when it was forbidden to enter the sea any other way. Machines were hired along with an attendant and a costume, the ladies segregated at some distance from the gentlemen.  

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