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...
by Anthony Harrison | Apr 16, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
DORCHESTER’S STREETS AND UTILITIES The earliest bylaw I have found dealing with public hygiene in Dorchester dates from 12th January 1693 when the Quarter Sessions Court sitting in the Borough ordered, “that every Inhabitant within this Borough in every Street thereof...
by Anthony Harrison | Feb 4, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
Sounds like the start of a really bad dad joke, right…….? Join Dorchester Sheroes in their quest to erect Dorchester’s first non-royal female statue and celebrate an overlooked shero from our past. This project aims to be a collaborative, community-led campaign...
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...
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