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...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog
By Ian Gosling, DCS Chair There were three distinct phases in the provision of Workhouses in Dorchester. THE ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PERIOD. The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 confirmed earlier practices by creating a system of relief of the poor administered at Parish...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog
By Ian Gosling, DCS Chair Whilst manning the DCS stall during Hengefest in late July I thought about how this ancient structure has been used in different ways by generations of Dorchester inhabitants over the past 4500 years. It was created in the late Neolithic...
by Anthony Harrison | Sep 20, 2023 | Events, Uncategorized
How to do Social Housing – the Vienna model. Visitors to Vienna probably won’t be surprised to hear that in 2023, (and for the eighth time!) Vienna has been declared the most liveable city in the world by the Global Liveability Index compiled by the Economist...
by Anthony Harrison | Aug 20, 2023 | Blog
NEW HERITAGE INFORMATION BOARD: Dorchester Town Council is preparing a heritage information board to be erected in front of the Old Malthouse in Fordington. As well as signalling that part of the 18th century building later became the Noah’s Ark pub, it will also show...
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