The Full Abstracts of the Feet of Fines Relating to the County of Dorset: Remaining in the Public Record Office, London, from Their Commencement in the Reign of Richard I, was published by Edward Alexander Fry and George Samuel Fry in 1896.
Feet of Fines
May 23, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, History)
Tags: Dorset, Edward Alexander Fry, Feet of Fines, George Samuel Fry
William Horsforde of Dorchester
May 21, 2009 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Dorchester, Dorset, William Horsforde
This extract of the Last Will and Testament of William Horsforde of Dorchester was first published in Genealogical gleanings in England By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, on behalf of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1885.
Heart of the Vale, Soul of the Town
May 18, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Farm Radio, Sturminster Newton
It is now more than ten years since the livestock market at Sturminster Newton closed down, bringing to an end 700 years of tradition. There was a project gathering views and ideas on video from the users of the market as part of the effort to keep it open. The realisation of what the closure meant to the people who used it was part of the inspiration behind the concept of “Farm Radio“.
Mary Godwyn of Lyme Regis
May 15, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Lyme Regis, Mary Godwyn
This extract of the Last Will and Testament of Mary Godwyn of Lyme Regis was first published in Genealogical gleanings in England By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, on behalf of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1885.
A Long and Intimate Relationship
May 14, 2009 at 4:00 am (Biography, History)
Tags: Dorset, Frederick Whitehead
Paul C Ensom celebrates Frederick Whitehead, a naturalist painter with a fine eye for the landscapes of Dorset in all its moods
Read the full article in Dorset Life
Saturday Driver
May 11, 2009 at 4:00 am (Biography, History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Peter Roberts
For many years Peter Roberts worked with buses and coaches in Dorset. Here he remembers one particular summer day thirty years ago.
Read the full story in Dorset Life
Sandbanks through the ages
May 5, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Sandbanks
Today it is one of the most sought after corners of Britain but back in 1896 the only buildings on the Sandbanks peninsula were a couple of hotels and a handful of homes.
Read the full article in the Daily Echo
The Municipal Records of the Borough of Shaftesbury
May 1, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Charles Herbert Mayo, Dorset, Shaftesbury
Publish in 1889, The Municipal Records of the Borough of Shaftesbury by Charles Herbert Mayo are subtitled ‘A Contribution to Shastonian History’.
The way we were… in a new book
April 29, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Portland, Weymouth
The following appeared in the Dorset Echo on Tuesday April 28, 2009 regarding a new book it has just published containing some of the most striking images of Weymouth and Portland from a bygone age
100 Years of Dorset Scouting
April 22, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorchester, Dorset, Poole, Portland, Weymouth
Mike Greenham of the Weymouth Scouts and John Gage of the Dorchester Scouts are also preparing to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the movement in Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester. Troops were formed in 1909 just two years after the first Scouting movement began at Brownsea island near Poole.
Read the full story in the Dorset Echo.
