Ryde old picture postcards
(the sea front)
Pictures - the town - the sea front - the pier and sea - around Ryde
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dates, where given, usually refer to the date on the postmark
Ryde Pavilion
(circa 1952)
Contribured by Chris Pomphrett
Scenes of Ryde Front
(1979)
Contribured by Chris Pomphrett
Ryde Pier gates
(Royal) Pier Hotel
Demolished 1930 - it stood opposite the bottom of Union Street
Royal Eagle and Albany Hotels Ryde Esplanade (1905)
Western Esplanade
(1911)
Ryde - the Hotels - 1905
Esplanade Hotels
(1927)
Esplanade Gardens, 1911
before the Pavilion
Ryde Esplanade 1905
Ryde Esplanade - 1908
Ryde sands 1906
Ryde sands 1911
Eastern Esplanade
Ryde sands 1919
Ryde Esplanade
showing the Victoria Pier,
before the Pavlion
Ryde western Esplanade
(post 1927 i.e. the Pavlion is there)
Ryde western Esplanade
(post 1927 as mentioned left)
Esplanade Gardens
Looking at the Castle Hotel and up Dover Street
Ryde - Esplanade Gardens - 1910
Ryde Canoe Lake
Ryde - St Cecilias Abbey - 1934
Appley Lane
The Glen, Little Appley - 1910
Appley Tower
Ap(p)ley Tower
A folly built in 1875 for Sir William Hutt of Appley Towers House estate - the main house was demolished in the 1960's.