February 13, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Stone
Stone from Dorset has graced buildings as impressive at St Paul’s Cathedral and the Cenotaph in London. And it has added beauty to many a farmhouse and cottage in the county.Geologist Jo Thomas, has written a highly readable yet scholarly study of Dorset’s rich variety of stones, how the rocks were formed and where they have been used for buildings.
Read about it in the Daily Echo.
August 21, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorchester, Evans, Fooks, Moule, Preedy, Stone
The following report on the public executions of murderers Charles Fookes and Alfred Preedy at Dorchester, Dorset, England appeared in the Times on March 28, 1863.
