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.
Dorsetshire
June 18, 2009 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, Dorsetshire, Swanage
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.
Riding The Rails
February 6, 2009 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Purbeck, Swanage
The Swanage Railway is almost taken for granted by people of the town and of Purbeck, but what is it actually like to drive a mighty locomotive from Swanage to Norden? Peter Frost describes such a trip.
Read the full article in Dorset Life.
The Oddities of Swanage
February 25, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Burt, Mowlem, Swanage
Another extract from Charles Harper’s book ‘The Dorset Coast’published in 1905 where he describes some of the monumental oddities that have made there way to this seaside town in Dorset.
John Mowlem (1788-1868)
February 24, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography)
Tags: Burt, Freeman, Mowlem, Swanage
John Mowlem was born at Swanage, Dorset where he was baptised on November 9, 1788 the son of John & Hannah Mowlam, and worked in the stone quarries of the Isle of Purbeck with his father and three brothers.
Swanage, Dorset 1831
September 26, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Swanage
A Description of the town of Swanage, Dorset, England as described by Samuel Lewis in A Topographical Dictionary of England, Published in London in 1831. Read the rest of this entry »
