History of Ryde Carnival. This in depth history article is kindly supplied The Ryde Social Heritage Group from their newsletter Volume 3, Number 4, October 2. The Ryde Social Heritage group have a much larger archive of the Ryde Carnival which is available to view during their Heritage Open Days. Some additional text has been taken from our original history page and added to this article, we will also be adding some historically interesting photographs. Although the first Ryde Carnival was held in 1. Queen’s Jubilee and which she herself attended. The County Press of 3.
July 1. 88. 7 shows that many worries were the same as today: “The weather,though somewhat threatening in the morning,cleared up as the hours advanced”. A grandstand to seat 8. Esplanade Gardens and a quarter to six the children were gathered there with the dignitaries, ready to greet Her Majesty. Crowns, flags and red and green drapery were the order of the day, with many banners displaying mottoes such as “God bless our Queen” and “Victoria, gracious, noblest Queen”.“Festoons of flags” were everywhere and St. Thomas’ Square was a “pretty but rather bewildering spectacle”, with a ring of masts connected with coloured flags. On the Town Hall, “lines of flags reached from the clock tower to the roof, a crown was placed in the apex of the building, along the balcony were red hangings with yellow fringe and there were several shields and trophies”.
At night, the decorations were illuminated, and one which deserves mention is “the front of Mr Gustav Mullin’s Royal Photographic Studio, a prominent item here being a splendidly illuminated transparency of the Queen, surmounted by VR and a representation of the Imperial crown in variegated lights”. The evening culminated in a torchlight procession, “headed by the Volunteer band, which was followed by the fire brigade. Other cars followed bearing. The article began; “Last season the public appreciation of a torchlight procession and masquerade led to the idea suggesting itself to Mr W Gibbs and Mr Gustav Mullin’s that the same sort of thing carried out to a fuller extent would please the public still more.
They thought, too, that by calling the affair a Carnival they might induce a large number of the general public to join in the fun.” The theme was mainly kings and queens of England, although Robin Hood, Red Riding Hood (complete with performing wolf) and twelve ghosts also made an appearance. Once again the Volunteer Band and the Fire Brigade led the way, many of the shops and houses along the route were decorated, and the evening ended with a bal masque at the Town Hall. In 1. 88. 9, despite the complaint that many people “did not join in the fun themselves”, Queen Victoria, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, saw fit to come to Ryde once again to witness the spectacle. It is reported in the Observer of Saturday, 1. August, that, as the procession was forming in Lind Street, “Her Majesty scanned the grotesque figures which met her gaze with an amused smile”!
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Even more so when “Captain Conway at the head of his troupe of 1. West Street, and stood in line: as the Royal carriage passed the ghosts gave a very unghostly salute in military style, and both the Queen and the Princess Beatrice seemed very amused at the odd incident”. This year lime lights were used in the procession, which illuminated the costumes to great effect. One of the most admired cars represented Britannia and the four countries – John Bull, Paddy, Sandy and Taffy, and according to the reporter this tableau “took the cake”. Mr Tenison Smith would have made a better Turk if he had had more whiskers. Mr Coles was the model of a Tartar (he is not a tartar in real life, however,)” . Characters from children’s literature and Shakespeare were also represented this year, as well as Father Christmas “in a perambulator”.
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Once again, the festivities ended with the dance at the Town Hall, which continued until 3am, and which was attended by devils,clowns, bards, knights, hussars, courtiers and many more, the costumes being supplied by Mr Walter Waller, of 8. Tabernacle Street, London, EC, “who charged very reasonable rates and gave general satisfaction”. In 1. 89. 5, a street collection was held in aid of the Royal Isle of Wight County Hospital, the idea of Mr A W Jackson. The collectors were given “a long canvas tube, with a funnel at one end, (leading to a box), and the whole was fixed to a pole, and painted yellow, with blue bands of ribbon”.
History does not relate whether any of the collecting boxes broke under the weight!! There is also a report this year of some protestors, taking “stronger measures than usual to display their feelings.
It was very difficult to hear all that was said, as a number of buglers did all they could to drown the voices of those taking part in the meeting.”The account of this year’s Masquerade Ball again makes interesting reading: “Amongst the most original dresses was that of Miss Nora Jesse, who made a very effective “Wasp”, presumably without a sting”. Others costumes mentioned include: “Mr Haliday, Sir Walter Raleigh; Mr A Barton, Mephistopheles; Mr J Vardy, Dick Turpin; Miss Hounsell, Water Lily; Miss Waller, Lampshade”. Shanklin was active in 1. Ventnor in 1. 89. Regattas took over from carnival for a few years, but things got off with a bang in 1.
A carnival firework display in Simeon Street Recreation ground was watched by an estimated 5. Between 1. 90. 6 and 1. Carnival processions, Regattas took over from carnival for a few years, but in 1. Spotting Competition.
The Carnival Office was in 7 Cross Street, Ryde. The Times of 1 September 1. Dagenham Girl Pipers also traveled by air “from Heston to the Isle of Wight on Wednesday”. The Rev J W Graves, founder and manager of the Dagenham Girl Pipers, accompanied the party to the Island.
About 3. 00 children were assembled in costume and there were many trades people entering tableaux in the parade. Also taking part were The British Legion, .
John’s Women’s Institute, . A carnival dance was held at St.
John’s Road Drill Hall, which was deemed a hugh success, the music being provided by the Black Diamond Rhythm Boys. The County Press of Saturday, 1.
January 1. 93. 5, contains the proposal of the formation of a Ryde Carnival Association “for the permanent control of the carnival”, and it was decided that the first week of September should be Carnival Week, an idea considered to bring as many people as possible into Ryde towards the end of the summer season, which still holds true today. Two separate programme’s were produced and sold for 2d (2 old pennies) each. The Dagenham Girl Pipers returned for a second year and performed on the Western Esplanade on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The children’s procession left Partlands at 2.
Tuesday followed by an All- Island Baby Show at 4pm and an Inter- School sports competition. The Buccaneers held a treasure hunt on Wednesday and there was a . The Great Fete and Funfair was held at the Recreation Ground at “Considerable cost” for the three days Tuesday to Thursday.
Chief Fire Officer H Jolliffe of Ryde was the Arena Master and pumps from Ryde, East Cowes, Newport, Sandown, Shanklin and Osborne House took part in five different exercises during the afternoon. The Ryde British Legion Band played selections to entertain the crowd who paid 6d (six old pennies) children 3d (three old pennies) to watch the competition. The Carnival continued on an annual basis to 1. Fire breaks out at the Illuminated Carnival 1. The Carnival of 1.
Archie Warren astride his grey mare Freda, who had 1. This was despite the fact that Archie had been involved in a riding accident on Ryde Sands only five weeks previously. However an unusual event caused it to be remembered more than most, as the @pre- hysteric Era’ float entered by Warner’s Puckpool Holiday Camp and peopled by holiday makers,caught fire on its way along Melville Street, resulting in two cave men being hospitalised.
Warner’s had two entries in this year’s procession – the aforementioned featuring a 6. Both entries won a cup – the Puckpool entry won the Percy Cup as the tableau, and St. Clare’s won the Walls Cup for best holiday camp float. That float comprised a 3.
US sailor with numerous characters from the film and stage musical. The Puckpool dinosaur was made of wood, hardboard and canvas, “with a sponge bath mat tongue hanging from gaping jaws”, according to the Isle of Wight Times of 8 September 1. A number of happy campers had had an unusual addition to their holiday, by screaming into beer mugs, which was then recorded to provide the roaring sound effects for this procession. The neck and head of the beast moved independently, and 4.
Ryde. On reaching Melville Street, flames suddenly swept through the dry foliage covering the cave, and setting alight the clothing of the competitors. Their screams alerted the driver, who stopped the lorry and tackled the fire with an extinguisher, whilst onlookers pulled burning debris from the float. Two camp staff, Peter Benn and Neil Henrickson were detained at the County Hospital with burns. This was to be one of the last years that all the holiday camps entered floats in the carnival processions, a traditional which finally ended in about 1.
King Kong made an appearance in. The tallest float in the procession was the monster “great black ape- like creature glaring down on the crowds, arms outstretched” entered by Warner’s Woodside Bay camp. Having survived the main procession without mishap, and enthralling the crowds, King Kong was scheduled to take part in Saturday’s Illuminated procession but “the central character lost his head and was unable to appear - en route with dozens of “Flintstones” cavemen and women, the gorilla was decapitated by an overhanging tree branch”.
Having already had a through soaking in the main Thursday procession, many children returned the following day for their own Children’s parade.