by Anthony Harrison | Apr 1, 2025 | Blog
THE RIVER FROME’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROSPERITY OF DORCHESTER (PART 2) Ian Gosling, Chair, Dorchester Civic Society The early English settled in Dorchester because of its defensive position at what is now Top of Town, the proximity of the river Frome winding through...
by Anthony Harrison | Apr 1, 2025 | Blog
THE CHAPEL DEDICATED TO SAINT NEVERWASTA Ian Gosling, Chair of Dorchester Civic Society Some time ago a couple of Dorchester residents contacted me to tell me about a very important and, up to now, unknown monument they had been discovered shortly after they purchased...
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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