by Anthony Harrison | Feb 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The result of the 2024 parliamentary election in the constituency of West Dorset marked a radical departure from the unbroken line of Conservative candidates elected to Parliament from 1868 onwards. It is therefore an opportune moment to review the history of the...
by Anthony Harrison | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog
In my last post on Royal visits, I mentioned the statue of George III on Weymouth Esplanade and featured a photograph of the more than life sized likeness of the monarch (Photo 1). I had noticed that his right hand was in a position which looked unnatural, as if he...
by Anthony Harrison | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog
The Tories had adopted the name ‘Conservative Party’ in the 1830s and it had replaced, at least officially, the term ‘Tories’ as from the 1867 Reform Act by which Benjamin Disraeli had substantially increased the size of the electorate, and it was universally used...
by Anthony Harrison | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog
This is the first of two posts on the primordial role of the River Frome in creating the prosperous county town in which we now live. Since pre-Roman England wherever humans have tilled the soil, streams have been used to power waterwheels to mill the corn and other...
by Anthony Harrison | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog
I recently visited the former Royal Hospital for Seamen in Greenwich, part of which is now occupied by the Maritime Museum, and I was struck by its close links to Dorset. THE EARLY GREENWICH PALACE Its site on the south bank of the Thames, downstream from the City of...
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