LOOK BACK IN TIME: 15 March 1856
The Isle of Wight Observer published on 15th March 1856, included a letter from an Islander very upset with the…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 15th March 1856, included a letter from an Islander very upset with the…
Read MoreThe Editor of the Isle of Wight Observer published on 14th March, 1857 was clearly outraged at being denied access…
Read MoreThe IW Observer published on 28th February, 1903 recounts a mystery over a young woman’s body discovered off Dunnose Point…
Read MoreThe thoughts about the unnecessary felling of trees from this reader of the Isle of Wight Observer published on 23rd…
Read MoreThe original Ryde Pier opened on July 26, 1814. Before then ferry passengers had to be carried ashore on the…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 8th February, 1902 reported two crimes and the outcome after the perpetrators appeared…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 4th February, 1888 recounts a story about a stable boy who goes to…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 26 January, 1856 contains an article about a shipwreck off the coast of…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 21 January 1911 detailed the misbehaviour of a 14-year-old boy that stole and…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer, published on 12th January 1889, told of the first prosecution on the Island of a…
Read MoreThis week two short pieces from the Isle of Wight Observer published on January 7th, 1854 caught our eye. This…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 28th November 1863 told the true tale of a waggon thought to be…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 16th December, 1854 contained a letter from a corporal in the Crimean War.…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer of 6th December, 1865 details the proposed addition of oil lamps to light up the…
Read MoreA story published in the Isle of Wight Observer on 1st December, 1855 describes the ‘extraordinary feat’ of a disabled…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 26th November 1921 gives a lengthy account of a lecture about Ireland, at…
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