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...
by Anthony Harrison | Sep 9, 2024 | Blog
THE ROYAL FAMILY AND DORCHESTER Ian Gosling, Chair of Dorchester Civic Society As far as I have been able to establish the first royal visitor to Dorchester was King John (1199-1216) who made frequent visits to the town between 1204 and 1214, where he resided in the...
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 | 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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