February 29, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: National Archives
The National Archives is funding a project to make available online 250,000 pages of the National Register of Archives lists. The focus of the project is on helping smaller archives to put their own catalogues online.
More Information at the National Archives Website
February 28, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Dorset, Weymouth
Transport historian Brian Searle looks back at the life and times of the St Patrick, one of Weymouth’s most popular passenger ferries. The ‘Paddy’, as she was affectionately known, made her maiden voyage 60 years ago this month.
Read the full article in the Dorset Echo
February 27, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Gaer Hill, Gare Hill, Somerset
The following is a copy of an article extracted from the Somerset & Wilts Journal of 28th August 1858, by Cecil Smith who lived at Gaer Hill from his birth in 1904 until his death in 2002. The old church stood on the site of the Old School House and was thatched. Although still marked on the OS map as a church, the building is now a private residence.
February 26, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Dorset, Tyneham
Beneath the muck and dust of ages, Tyneham’s centuries-old farm is stirring. For nearly 65 years all that has moved through its stables and stalls are bats, creepy-crawlies and the odd range warden – but a new project is under way that will see these buildings restored and reopened.
Read the full story by Nick Churchill in the Bournemouth Daily Echo
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.
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.
February 23, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Baggs, Osmington, Weymouth
This account of the events which occurred between 1825 and 1827 at Holworth Cliff near Osmington, Dorset were first published in 1905 by Charles Harper in his book ‘The Dorset Coast’.
February 22, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Canford, Dorset, Fordingbridge, Kinson, Poole, Smugglers, Trotman
This description of The Smugglers of Poole was first published in 1905 by Charles Harper as chapter five in his book ‘The Dorset Coast’.
February 21, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
February 20, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Google
A must use tool for any online genealogy and family tree researcher. This video show you how to easily install and use a special feature on the Google Toolbar that will reduce the strain on your eyes.
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