The Town Hall 1892, Ryde
The Town Hall 1892, Ryde Ref: 30039
Memories of The Town Hall 1892, Ryde
View From my Balcony
The church was the view from my flat balcony in Lind Street 1983 and beyond was the sea.
My Old Gran, 1950s
My name is Peter Smith. I have some wonderful memories of Ryde. The flying boats in East Cowes is one of them. The trams that ran through Ryde, before the underground stock was bought in from London. I remember being severly told off one day for stripping naked and jumping in the boating lake, bear in mind I was only about 7 or 8 I think, lol. I don't know if others would remember my gran, she worked in the greengrocers in the high street, and I can picture her always stood outside the shop front in her white overall/outfit. She was a jolly old soul and very well known as I remember. She was originally Smith, then Pink, then Bartlett, as she was married 3 times lol. Her last husband, Gus Bartlett as I knew him, was a prison officer at one time in Parkhurst, then I believe he joined the British Rail in the Isle of Wight. They lived in Green Street, Ryde. I lived in East... Read more
Ryde & local memories
Read and share memories of Ryde and Isle of Wight inspired by Frith photos.
An Underground Train on The Isle of Wight
I went on a youth hostelling trip to the Isle of Wight in 1969 with my young brother Geoff and indulged our interest in trains by walking along the railway track of disused old steam train routes.
However one memory that sticks out is the strange but true experience of riding on old London Transport tube trains which had been brought over to the Isle of Wight to run an electric train service from Ryde Pier to Shanklin. I took some colour photos which I still have all these forty years later and it looks to me as though the tube rains had been painted a sort of greeny-blue colour. It was an enjoyable short holiday mostly remembered for this odd experience of our journey on a tube train by the sea!
