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Friday, May 16, 2008
100 Years Ago
May 16, 1908
While rolling the cricket ground at Blackwater, an inmate from the County Asylum got more than he bargained for when he bolted across country.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
100 Years Ago
May 9, 1908
A private in the Suffolk Regiment, stationed at Parkhurst, was fined 2s 6d and 4s costs after admitting to being drunk and disorderly in East Cowes.
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Friday, May 2, 2008
LOOKING BACK
100 Years Ago
May 2, 1908
Four people were dead and 23 missing after a Naval disaster in blizzard conditions near Yarmouth on April 25. The victims were on board HMS Gladiator, which was accidentally rammed by an American liner, St Paul, at about 2.30pm
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Friday, April 25, 2008
100 Years Ago
April 25, 1908
Edwin Preece, of Ryde, was fined 1s and 10s 6d costs after being found guilty of riding his bicycle furiously at St Thomas’s Square, Newport.
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A group of tourists who tried to ...
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Friday, April 18, 2008
100 Years Ago
April 18, 1908
More than 1,000 men from the Island were needed for the 8th Battalion of The Hampshire Regiment, which was being formed under the new Territorial Army (TA) scheme.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
100 Years Ago
April 11, 1908
An inquest was opened into the death of a 62-year-old bargeman who drowned at Cowes Harbour despite valiant attempts to rescue him by local fishermen. Thomas Lilley was said to have been under ...
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Friday, April 4, 2008
LOOKING BACK
100 Years Ago
April 4, 1908
Thirty six lives were lost in the sea off St Catherine’s Point when the torpedo destroyer, Tiger, sank during a naval exercise.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
100 Years Ago
March 28,1908
It was decided at a meeting of the IW Guardians to increase the number of places available at the workhouse, due to a large influx of inmates.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
100 Years Ago
March 21, 1908
The body of a boy was found on the shore near the Tower at Appley.
It was wrapped in a muslin curtain inside a pillow case with brown paper on the outside and tape was tied tightly round ...
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Friday, March 14, 2008
100 Years Ago
March 14, 1908
A labourer from Godshill was charged with sacrilege, after stealing 2s 1d from the church poor box.
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A fatal accident occurred at Gatcombe Mill Shute, when a 41-year-old carter ...
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