The Isle of Wight County Press has been bringing the news to Islanders since 1884. We've delved into the archives to find out what was happening in days gone by.
125 Years Ago
June 15, 1901
Two prisoners who escaped from Parkhurst Prison were captured at Newtown by a coastguard. The men escaped from custody during a potato hoeing expedition outside the prison walls. They were caught within the day.
An IW County Court case focused on the accumulation of Newport rubbish. The action was in respect of damage by rats harboured in the refuse heap; the plaintiff being the occupier of Fairlee Farm, and the defendant was a refuse company based at North Fairlee Farm.
100 Years Ago
June 12, 1926
A stone tablet bearing the names of 75 officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the 5th Hampshire Howitzer Battery who fell in the Mesopotamian campaign was unveiled by the Lord Lieutenant at the Drill Hall in Newport.
All restrictions on the movement of cattle on the Island, imposed following a foot and mouth outbreak, were being dropped except at the Haylands Farm where the outbreak was reported a month previously.
75 Years Ago
June 16, 1951
The mayor of Newport received a letter from three German girls who wished to travel to the Island to learn English. The letter was printed in the CP with the mayor asking for readers' suggestions.
Lt Cdr Sir Robert Hobart accepted the position of president of the IW Society for Blind after the last president, Princess Beatrice, who died in 1944.
50 Years Ago
June 12, 1976
For the first time in 80 years The Bugle Hotel in Yarmouth was to be without a member of the Cleary family as licensee.
The United Reformed and Methodist Churches in Ventnor agreed a declaration of intent to form a united church in the town.
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