Archaeologists working for the National Trust think they have found west Dorset’s oldest human settlement on Doghouse Hill on the Golden Cap estate.
‘Oldest’ human settlement found
July 6, 2009 at 6:28 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Golden Cap, National Trust
Massacre at Slapton Sands-the great Portland cover-up
July 3, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Portland, Second World War
Rodney Legg tells how wartime reminiscing enabled him to re-write the story of one of the most famous disasters of the Second World War and claim it for Dorset.
Stalbridge’s historian
July 1, 2009 at 4:00 am (Biography, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Hilary Townsend, Irene Jones, Stalbridge
Hilary Townsend remembers Irene Jones, a model for anyone interested in Dorset’s local history.
A schoolboy at Wimborne Minster
June 27, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Keith Eldred, Wimborne Minster
Keith Eldred describes what Sunday morning service was like for a young boy in the 1880s and 1890s
The Road across the Top
June 24, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Eggardon, Harry Poole's
‘Once you’re through the Gate on the Hill the road runs along the top of the outside earthwork of the Ancient British camp on top of Eggardon. After about five hundred yards it disappears from view as it drops down into the village’, are the opening lines of Harry Poole’s The Road across the Top.
Powerstock – A short social History
June 21, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Mappercombe, Nettlecombe, North Poorton, Powerstock, West Milton, Whetley, Wytherstone
Author Harry Poole spent most of his life farming around Eggardon Hill and is a fund of knowledge with regard to the history of Powerstock and it’s surrounding villages. Apart from the four Powerstock booklets he has written two novels and two plays, none of which have found a publisher. The booklets can however be read on-line. Powerstock, in this essay, comprises Nettlecombe, West Milton, North Poorton, Wytherstone, Mappercombe and Whetley.
Dorsetshire
June 18, 2009 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, Dorsetshire, Swanage
The following extract was originally published in A guide to the coasts of Hants & Dorset by Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott in 1859 and digitized by Google on March 19, 2007.
Town”Carnival” Poole Park 1937
June 13, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Poole
Poole “Carnival” Poole Park 1937 The film opens with the Barnardo’s Home Navy Band marching from the Jellico House in Constitution Hill Road To Poole Park .The parade is moving east to west.Floats ,Beauty Queen,and civic dignitaries abound. This film was taken by the pre-war local amateur film photographer Lee Hartnell
Swanage (1889)
June 4, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Corfe Castle, Dorset, Swanage, Wareham
This article on Swanage and the surrounding area by W. Armstrong Willis first appeared in The Gentleman’s Magazine, Published by F. Jefferies in 1889.
D-Day heroes hailed at the airfield where mission began
June 1, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Tarrant Rushton
A Nigth-time operation considered to have been key to the success of the D-Day landings during World War Two 65 years ago will be remembered at the long since disused Tarrant Rushton airfield where it started.
