by Anthony Harrison | Aug 19, 2024 | Blog
We have been asked on several occasions if any of the eighteenth-century houses in the centre of Dorchester were designed or built by the Bastard Brothers of Blandford Forum. Who were the Bastards? The Bastards’ firm was founded in the late 17th century by Thomas...
by Anthony Harrison | Jul 4, 2024 | Events, Uncategorized
Tickets still available if anyone missed the emails – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/924245532267/preview DORCHESTER CIVIC SOCIETY VISIT TO THE SHELL HOUSE AND SHERBORNE HOUSE ON THURSDAY 18THJULY 2024. We have organised this visit as a follow up to Stephan...
by Anthony Harrison | May 30, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
In 1588 Phillip II, the King of Spain, arguably the sovereign of the most powerful nation in the world at that time, launched an armada of naval vessels and merchantmen against England, which was then a minor island state. England had renounced Catholicism and adopted...
by Anthony Harrison | Apr 16, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
Until the end of the First World War Dorchester would have been full of horses, mounted by their owners, pulling the carriages of the wealthy and the middle classes, hauling goods waggons and the carts of tradesmen, farmers and common carriers and, of course, the...
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