Looking Back
Friday, March 12, 2010
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - March 12, 1910
A YOUNG gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery was charged with the theft of a bicycle, worth £8, and clothes worth £5.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - March 5, 1910
TWO men were fined for being drunk and disorderly while walking up Bonchurch Shute.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - February 26, 1910
TWO youngsters were charged with stealing the contents of collection boxes in Sandown.
Friday, February 19, 2010
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100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - February 19, 1910
A motion was passed to install electric lighting on Ventnor Pier.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - February 12, 1910
DOORS blew open and glass shattered across the street in a gas explosion at a Newport shop.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - February 5, 1910
ILLUSTRATIONS of the Island were published in a French magazine ahead of a visit by a party from Normandy.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - January 29, 1910
THIEVES who stole cash from Newport Liberal Club were thought to have hidden in the club until it closed.
Friday, January 22, 2010
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100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - January 21, 1910
A DRAMATIC day of polling ended with the election of Unionist candidate Douglas Hall.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - January 15, 1910
PLANS for an electric railway network on the Island moved a step closer, after the scheme was approved by members of the Island’s district councils.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - January 8, 1910
TWO men were sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour, following their conviction for menacing night poaching.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - January 1, 1910
THE Island’s prospective unionist candidate was forced to miss a large part of his election campaign through illness.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
LOOKING BACK
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - December 25, 1909
HEAVY rain caused the railway tunnel between Ryde St John’s Road and Ryde Esplanade to flood for only the second time in 20 years.
Friday, December 18, 2009
LOOKING BACK
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years AgoA FIERY public meeting was held in Gunville, where attempts to shout down the village’s mayor proved unsuccessful.
Friday, December 11, 2009
LOOKING BACK
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - December 11, 1909
DESPITE a number of suspected cases, swine fever was ruled out on the Island.
Friday, December 4, 2009
LOOKING BACK
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago - December 4, 1909
LORD and Lady Tennyson were special guests at an annual pantomime performed by officers and cadets at the Royal Naval College, Osborne.