Isle of Wight Heritage

In the 4th and final edition of Isle of Wight buses, for now at least, Island Echo examines the early years of Southern Vectis up until the outbreak of war. Southern Vectis - an amalgamation of Southern Railway and the...

Isle of Wight woman Lin Spearpoint - then 38 - dug up the most complete skeleton of the Polacanthus Foxii dinosaur ever found, near Brighstone on 6th April 1994. The name Polacanthus derives from the Ancient Greek poly 'many' and...

In the first of our series on Isle of Wight Middle Schools, Island Echo examines Osborne Middle School - 1 of 16 middle schools on the Island for 40 years from the early 1970s. All Isle of Wight Middle Schools...

In our 3rd edition of Isle of Wight buses, Island Echo examines the background and formation of Southern Vectis. Buses came late to the Isle of Wight compared with the rest of the nation - but they say we are...

Alfred Rackett Photo: Ancestry.com Alfred Rackett has been officially recognised as a victim of the bombing of Newport on the morning of 7th April 1943. On that fatal and tragic morning, 8 Luftwaffe planes dropped bombs on Newport causing devastation....

Did you know that the 80s and 90s were the heyday of American Football - sometimes described as 'chess with violence' - on the Isle of Wight? The recently-formed Wight Raptors keep the flag flying for the gridiron game on...

A taxi plunged into the sea through a massive hole in Ryde pier in March 1973. The hole had been torn into the pier by the passenger ferry MV Shanklin, which had smashed into the pier in poor visibility minutes...

Today, the Island's bus operator Southern Vectis runs just 16 bus routes but there used to be far more... Bus route numbers came to the Island in 1933. At that time, there were the same number of routes as we...

St Helens Blue Star were a force to be reckoned with in Island football for almost 140 years. Island Echo takes an in-depth look at the former club with exclusive photos... The village club are believed to have been formed...

Do you remember the bus stations at Newport, Ryde, Shanklin and Ventnor before their redevelopment? All are but a shadow of their former selves: Newport and Ryde are now soulless transport interchanges, and the bus stations at Shanklin and Ventnor...