September 8, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: ATS, Dorset, Weymouth
After re-reading The Trumpet Major in the 1970s, Anne Barrett jotted down some reminiscences of wartime Weymouth, Dorset, England which her daughter, Gay Doggart, recently discovered. Here she introduces them and provides a postscript.
Read the full article in Dorset Life
August 29, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Weymouth
United States Soldiers march through Weymouth, en route to board landing ships for the invasion of France, circa late May or early June 1944. Note the barbed wire in the foreground and the Victoria Hotel behind.
July 26, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Nothe, Weymouth
The boys who were roaming around Weymouth’s abandoned Nothe Fort 50 years ago have answered a call from staff to come forward and help with a film about its colourful history.
Read the full story by Harry Walton in the Dorset Echo
July 6, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Nothe, Weymouth
These videos by Stuart Morris show the transformation of Weymouth’s historic Nothe Fort from its totally derelict state in 1968 to its restoration as a major historic tourist attraction.
June 29, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Hayward, Weymouth
Visitors from Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Ian and Helen Hayward trod in the footsteps of Ian’s late father on their recent holiday to Weymouth, Dorset, England.
Full story by Nicola Rayner in the Dorset Echo
June 8, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorchester, Moreton, Osmington, Poxwell, Preston, Warmwell, Weymouth
Imagine if the train from Weymouth to London took you through Preston, Osmington, Poxwell and Warmwell before joining the main line east of Moreton. It sounds peculiar but this was one ofthe routes considered in the 1840s.
Read about the Southampton and Dorchester Railway in this article from the Dorset Echo to find out why it was known as the ‘Corkscrew’ line.
June 1, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Trawler, Weymouth
There have been countless ideas thought up in hazy bars over several pints of beer which have never seen the light of day. But the Trawler race dreamt up by a band of fishermen at the King’s Arms pub on Weymouth’s harbourside 31 years ago is not one of them.
Read the full story by Nicola Rayner in the Dorset Echo
May 26, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, History)
Tags: Fitzpatrick, Weymouth
A former member of the Royal Hussars is appealing for information about a soldier who hailed from Weymouth. He wants to know if anyone has information on Sergeant Dennis Joseph Fitzpatrick who is buried in a war cemetery in Berlin.
Read the full story by Nicola Rayner in the Dorset Echo
May 22, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Dorset, Melcombe Regis, Weymouth
This description of Weymouth & Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England is taken from The representative history of Great Britain and Ireland by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield published in 1816.
April 18, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Dorset. Westham, Weymouth
Just over 125 years ago, on September 22, 1882, at a meeting at the Rocks Hotel (now The Rock), it was decided that a name was needed for the suburb growing on the farmlands on the western side of the Backwater at Weymouth, Dorset, England. Thus the area of Westham was christened.
Read the full article by Nicola Rayner in the Dorset Echo
