Ventnor Heritage Centre

"To Collect, Record and preserve the rich heritage and history of Ventnor and surrounding villages, and share it with local and wider communities"

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Ventnor Remembered

Daphne Carter was a longstanding member of Ventnor & District Local History Society who, during the 1980s and 1990s, photographed the people, buildings, streets and landscape of our area.  Her collection of thousands of images is now being made available on a dedicated website, Ventnor Remembered, a project undertaken and developed by Friends of Ventnor Library, supported by the Society and enabled by a grant from Down to the Coast.  Daphne died on 2017; the photograph here shows working on an exhibition in the Heritage Museum in 2004.

Click on the link below to go to the Ventnor Remembered website.

Ventnor Remembered

 

Exhibitions, stories, images . . .

Oh Day of Days! New Book and Exhibition

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in June 1944, we are launching a booklet and exhibition highlighting Ventnor’s (and the Isle of Wight’s) role in the invasion and the experiences of local people. The Isle of Wight was closer to the Normandy beaches than any other part of Britain, and the Ventnor district hosted vital facilities such as the RAF radar station, a Royal Navy wireless interception station and the main radio station used for communication between the high command and the invasion forces.  The exhibition will be available from 5 June 2024, and features the logbook (supervisors’ diary) from RAF Ventnor covering 17 May to 12 June 1944, currently on loan to the Ventnor Heritage Centre. The new booklet, “Oh Day of Days!”  is available in the Heritage Centre, price £4.50, and our online shop, price £6.50 (including postage and packing).

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