Friday, May 17, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – May 17, 1913
The education committee made its annual awards for Island schools with the best attendance records
Friday, May 10, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – May 10, 1913
The British and Irish Steam Packet Company advertised a regular cargo service between the Island and London, Plymouth, Famouth and Dublin, through its offices in Quay Street, Newport.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – May 3, 1913
IMMIGRATION agents Pickfords, which had offices in all the Island’s principal towns, was inviting Islanders to go on a free trip to Canada — funded by the Canadian government — as a way of promoting guaranteed employment opportunities and the possibility of permanent residence.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - April 26, 1913
THE launch of the first of two destroyers, built by Messrs John Samuel White and Co in Cowes for the Admiralty, was expected.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - April 19, 1913
A DUTCH steamer, which weighed nearly 2,000 tonnes, was brought to a ship builder in Cowes for repairs, after an engineers’ strike in Southampton.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years
Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - April 12, 1913
THE Island was discussed in Parliament when attention was drawn to the danger of sea navigation in foggy weather to steamers crossing between Portsmouth and the IW, owing to the position of the obsolete battleship, Empress of India.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - April 5, 1913
THE OWNER of Hollier's Hotel in Shanklin was pleased to find an unusual visitor among the frost in his garden.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - March 29, 1913
AN 18 YEAR old had a lucky escape after crashing into railings while on a bicycle ride.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - March 22, 1913
A COW caused some alarm to shop assistants after it walked behind the counter of a tobacconist’s store.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - March 15, 1913
A LARGE wooden store belonging to the Joint Railways Companies near the St John’s Road Station was found on fire.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - March 8, 1913
THREE young men from Newport were charged by police for playing football in the street.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - March 1, 1913
A LABOURER from Freshwater was charged with the theft of wire netting, from a property in Mottistone.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago
100 Years Ago - February 22, 1913
A STRANGE egg was found by a woman in St Helens.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – February 15, 1913
DENSE fog interrupted the steamer service between the pier at Totland Bay and Lymington, causing a backlog of ships in the bay.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – February 8, 1913
REPORTS of an unusual light in the sky excited residents in Cowes.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – February 1, 1913
AFTER a plague of wasps at the Wheatsheaf Inn, Ryde, part of the brick chimney in the kitchen was removed and an enormous wasp’s nest was found.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – January 25 1913
A BOAT house was demolished after a section of the cliff opposite the coastguard’s old watch house in Totland Bay collapsed.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – January 18 1913
A NAVAL funeral took place in Ryde Cemetery for a 33-year-old petty officer, who had been ill for a long time.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years
Ago100 Years Ago – January 11, 1913
A CLIFF footpath in Sandown, which became dangerous after many landslips, was reopened after an Islander gifted a strip of land.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – January 4, 1913
A SHIP was feared lost in The Channel after empty petrol cans and a large drum containing ten gallons of petrol were found by local fishermen.