LOOK BACK IN TIME: A haunted waggon
The 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 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…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer, published on 20th November 1852, carried a notice that an Act of Parliament was intended…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 9th November, 1912 tells a wife’s tale of what appears to be a…
Read MoreIn the Isle of Wight Observer published on 9th November 1919, there is a lengthy report about the visit of…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on October 29th, 1853 describes a fire in Ryde and is less than complimentary…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer of October 19th, 1918, had a spoof column from the illiterate but opinionated ‘office boy’…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on October 14th, 1899, gave a round-up of some stories from the national publications.…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on October 8th, 1910, contains this appeal for old clothes or money from local…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 27th September 1862 contained this dramatic and rather sad tale of how a…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 18th September, 1920 discusses the unreliability of the British weather and the proposal…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 15th September 1894 was asked by Alderman James (a member of the Town…
Read MoreThe Isle of Wight Observer published on 10th September 1853 contained the following snippets which we found interesting. The railway…
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