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...
by Anthony Harrison | Nov 8, 2024 | Blog
Almost immediately after the outbreak of the 1914-8 War a decision was made to house a prisoner of war camp within the precincts of the Royal Horse Artillery Barracks on the north- west outskirts of the town, at what has now in part become the Poundbury Industrial...
by Anthony Harrison | Sep 9, 2024 | Blog
IN THE STEPS OF THE TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS Ian Gosling, Chair of Dorchester Civic Society The history of the Tolpuddle Martyrs is closely linked to the wider economic and political context. In the 1830s the English countryside was a theatre of agitation caused by a...
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