Well what else can one do on those long winter evenings when the family is already too big, candles are too feeble to read by and Marconi has yet to start his Isle of Wight experiments with the radio? So, there remain two obvious choices, off to the pub whilst the wife suckles the babies or along to the temperance hall if the children are independent and the wife wants to come too! Hence the propensity of those two types of establishment. It's also probable that all those big open hills on the Island inspired many a budding preacher! Mark La Rochelle, France. Peter & Angela McMurtry wrote: > Like I said a few week's ago - the Island seemed to be divided in to 2 > distinct groups ... beer swilling rabble or those who were tea totallers :-) > (said tongue in cheek !). > > Another thing which I find amazing - the large numbers of various christian > groups on the IoW, must have been ripe pickings for the Non Conformists. > Seems to be a lot of them about given the population. Must look in to it > further one of these days. > > Welcome back Chris Hayles > > Angela in Oz ( still have a a heap of newspaper snippets to go through ) > > > > > ************************************** > You can contact the Isle of Wight List Administrator by emailing: > [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >