by Anthony Harrison | Feb 4, 2024 | Blog
As you may have seen in the local press, the Dorchester Civic Society has launched a campaign to reinstate The Derek Beauchamp Design Award in 2024 to mark the 50th anniversary of the society You can nominate a building or a project that has been completed since 2017...
by Anthony Harrison | Feb 4, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
Sounds like the start of a really bad dad joke, right…….? Join Dorchester Sheroes in their quest to erect Dorchester’s first non-royal female statue and celebrate an overlooked shero from our past. This project aims to be a collaborative, community-led campaign...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 18, 2024 | Events
Dorford Centre, Bridport Road, Dorchester 19:30 to 20:45 Recording can be found here on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWcjWO0ZVEA The invention and evolution of the Georgian landscape garden liberated garden buildings from the corset of formality, allowing...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog
By Ian Gosling, DCS Chair The Town Pump on Cornhill was erected in 1784, on the site of the cupola which served as the town’s Market House. It takes the form of a tall tapering square stone shaft obelix on a rectangular base, decorated with five horizontal...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog
Please be aware that this blog piece contains graphic details of Hugh Green’s execution! In my post this summer on public statues in Dorchester I included Elizabeth Frink’s Memorial to Dorchester’s Catholic Martyrs at the top of Icen Way at the spot known as...
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