Family Connections

This is how shopping in Dorset looked in bygone days.

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Here’s another old image of the area for you to try and guess the location of.

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There isn’t a wet suit in sight in this picture of the Women’s Christmas Day Harbour Swim from 1987.

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Are you missing the shops?

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This wonderful old picture shows crowds swarming ashore from Cosens’ paddle steamer Premier.

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Did you know that one of Hollywood’s biggest stars once graced a Weymouth harbourside inn?

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Here’s a picture of a very unusual twin-spired church which dominated a town skyline for 118 years.

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You couldn’t get a finer tradition than the Portland Fair.

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Here’s another photo of the area taken in bygone days for you to guess the location of.

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Here’s a fascinating old view of coastal Dorset from the mid 1980s.

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