I no longer live on the Island, or in fact in the UK but am 100-percent Caulkhead and proud of my heritage. I belong to several Isle of Wight Facebook groups and am quite shocked (should I be?) at the amount of small-minded, self-centred people in one group in particular who still think that the Covid pandemic is in fact a world government conspiracy!! Islanders have always been considered to be behind the times and not as “street wise” as our friends on the other side of the Solent and the remarks and posts on this site show why. To think that this pandemic is something that has been thought up by the world s governing bodies and that everything that these same world governments do is either a control conspiracy or a way of culling the worlds sick and infirm is just unbelievable!
We Grew Up on the Isle of Wight Facebook group recently. Ruth Thornley posted a photo of The Royal York Hotel in Ryde (main image above) and asked if people remembered the 69 Club there and dozens of people commented that they had their best nights out there ever in the 1960s, 70 and 80s!
Scroll though our gallery of pictures above to see more. Facebook group members recalled dancing to the Cherokees, The Who, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Moody Blues, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam band, Jimmy James and the Vagabonds, Gene Vincent and Black Sabbath there, as well as Dave Cannon s popular discos in the 1980s.
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We Grew Up on the Isle of Wight Facebook group have been contining to share pictures of themselves, their friends and people they remember when they were growing up.
Scroll through our gallery of pictures above to see more. Susan Mustchin s picture of her Brownies group (main image above) drew lots of comments. She said: I think it must have been no later than 1969, because you could be a Brownie up until the age of ten. I believe it was at an event in Newport for a visit from Lord Louis Mountbatten. Julie, my older sister, presented a bouquet to Lady Mountbatten and she would have been ten in 1969.
Scroll through our gallery of pictures above to see more. Catherine Elizabeth Cochrane has submitted some lovely shots on the
We Grew Up on the Isle of Wight Facebook page recently, including the main image above taken on Yaverland beach in the 1970s and a newspaper clipping from a Brading Methodist Church event in 1984. When she shared the clipping, she said: Anyone recognise themselves here? I do remember most, but a few on the top row I just can t place. It was a Sunday School event. I m on the bottom row next to the Sunday school teacher Jane, I m wearing glasses.
A small army of mums from all over the Isle of Wight have come together to support the IW Women s Refuge. Started in 2018 by a local mum, Kate Holland, the Isle of Wight Mums group is a 1,500-strong Facebook community. Recently a few mums got together and decided that this year, given how much the group has now grown, they wanted to be able to give back to the community. With the help of a few members, they settled on organising a donation drive in aid of the women’s refuge. Within just a few short days, the idea turned into an event that has now snowballed massively.