by Anthony Harrison | Mar 21, 2025 | Events
Dorford Centre, Bridport Road, 7.30 PM, Tuesday 1st April Please join us to hear a talk from Dr Paul Kelly PhD about the research he has conducted into the background of this historic building that looks over the main crossroads in Dorchester for traffic heading west...
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...
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