LOOK BACK IN TIME: 1st December, 1855
Isle of Wight ObserverA story published in the Isle of Wight Observer on 1st December, 1855 describes the ‘extraordinary feat’ of a disabled…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: 26th November 1921
The Isle of Wight Observer published on 26th November 1921 gives a lengthy account of a lecture about Ireland, at…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: 20th November 1852
The Isle of Wight Observer, published on 20th November 1852, carried a notice that an Act of Parliament was intended…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: 9th November 1912
The Isle of Wight Observer published on 9th November, 1912 tells a wife’s tale of what appears to be a…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: 9th November 1919
In the Isle of Wight Observer published on 9th November 1919, there is a lengthy report about the visit of…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: October 29th 1853
The Isle of Wight Observer published on October 29th, 1853 describes a fire in Ryde and is less than complimentary…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: October 19th 1918
The Isle of Wight Observer of October 19th, 1918, had a spoof column from the illiterate but opinionated ‘office boy’…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: October 14th 1899
The Isle of Wight Observer published on October 14th, 1899, gave a round-up of some stories from the national publications.…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: October 8th 1910
The Isle of Wight Observer published on October 8th, 1910, contains this appeal for old clothes or money from local…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: 27th September 1862
The Isle of Wight Observer published on 27th September 1862 contained this dramatic and rather sad tale of how a…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: 18th September 1920
The Isle of Wight Observer published on 18th September, 1920 discusses the unreliability of the British weather and the proposal…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: 15th September 1894
The Isle of Wight Observer published on 15th September 1894 was asked by Alderman James (a member of the Town…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: 10th September 1853
The Isle of Wight Observer published on 10th September 1853 contained the following snippets which we found interesting. The railway…
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A letter published in the Isle of Wight Observer of 2nd September 1922, details the wearisome trials of a hirsute…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: August 28th 1920
This week we have two pieces from the Isle of Wight Observer of 28th August 1920. The first describes a…
Read MoreLOOK BACK IN TIME: August 18th 1866
We enjoyed this report of a cricket match between Ryde and Ventnor from the Isle of Wight Observer published on…
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