Ryde Travel Guide

 budapest8 Says:  Ryde and the Beatles connection.When you are walking up Union Streetfrom the Esplanade you will notice a pubon the right hand side called the Bow Bars,this used to be one of my favourite watering holes and sadly turned into something elseand no longer serves real ale and... 

 budapest8 Says:  At the top of the hill where Johns Streetmeets Queens Road and you can see the All Saints church. This is located in Queens Road on a road junction known as Five Ways.I used to sing in the choir here on Sundays and attend choir practice once a week.We got 2/6 for singing at... 

 budapest8 Says:  Ryde where it's good to walk!I spent most of my childhood in this town,well from the age of 6 until 13 when I was shipped off to boarding school on the mainland.The population of Ryde was around 10,000,but would swell many times that numberduring the summer season with all... 

 planxty Says:  If you get off the FastCat catamaran from Portsmouth, you will be deposited at the end of Ryde Pier. Now you could get the Island Line electric train, which is worth doing, but you can always pick it up at Ryde St. John's. Instead I recommend a walk along the pier, which... 

 andrewyong Says:  When you arrived by the Fastcat ferry at Ryde Pier, you can either walk to Ryde Esplanade or if you are lazy (like me), take the two-carriage old London Underground train to the Esplanade. Turn left and you are on the Western Gardens of the Esplanade where benches greet you... 

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 budapest8 Says:  During 1941, the Southern Railway steamers Portsdown and Southsea had been lost to enemy mines. Now, new motor vessels were ordered to replace them. By the time MV Southsea and MV Brading entered service on 1 November 1948, the Southern Railway had been absorbed into the... 

 budapest8 Says:  As HMS Ryde she would serve in the Dover Straights and the North Sea. During the sisters' time as minesweepers, German propaganda broadcasts frequently made menacing references to them. On more than one occasion the Germans even claimed credit for sinking the vessels.After... 

 budapest8 Says:  I remember this paddle steamer in service when I was a child off the Ryde Pierhead. Then later aged 16 it was turned into a discowhere I bopped a few nights away.The Ryde is currently in a very poor state, and is reaching a time where it may be too late to save her. She... 

 budapest8 Says:  SANDS OF TIMEThe remains of a wooden hurdle have recently been recorded on Ryde West Sands by the Isle of Wight Council's Archaeological Service Bronze Age hurdle on Ryde beach The hurdle is staked down by two parallel rows of posts 1.2 metres apart. A similar structure...