Isle of Wight Heritage

Opened in 1875 on the Ryde & Newport Railway, Whippingham Station quietly linked parish life with the orbit of Osborne House.

Ever heard an Isle of Wight baby’s feeding bottle called a 'titty-bottle'? The curious expression was among dozens recorded when William Henry Long published his famous Isle of Wight dialect dictionary in the spring of 1886...

A proposed railway linking Ventnor with Freshwater was debated before a House of Lords committee on 19th March 1886 - 140 years ago today.

In our Isle of Wight Pubs series, Island Echo takes a look at Chale, where a handful of inns once served travellers, farmers and scattered communities on the Island’s south coast.

Sir Samuel Gurney-Dixon formally declared the Isle of Wight Technical College open in Newport on 10th March 1951 - 75 years ago today.

Pressed between cliff and carriageway, St Lawrence station served the Undercliff for 55 years before the sea air reclaimed the silence, opening on 20th July 1897.

20 years ago an Isle of Wight teenager believed she had won the national bingo jackpot at Ryde’s Commodore - but she wasn't old enough to claim the prize.

A revolver was fired during a riotous lecture at Shanklin Institute – now Shanklin Theatre – on 3rd March 1901.

Plans to protect the Isle of Wight from nuclear attack were revealed half-a-century ago at the height of the Cold War.

In our Isle of Wight Pubs series, Island Echo takes a look at Freshwater’s hotels and alehouses, and how they developed at the Island’s western edge.