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Ashmore maps
Historic maps of Ashmore and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ashmore maps
Historic map of Ashmore
Illustrated Victorian map of Wiltshire
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Ashmore books
Displaying 3 of 11 books about Ashmore and the local area. View all Ashmore books
Weymouth Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
Bridport Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
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Memories of Ashmore
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My great aunt Emilly Still lived in the bungalow in the background and we as children spent many happy summer holidays in Fontmell Magna. She and Tom (who I never knew) are buried in the church graveyard.
I remember travelling from our home in Kent to Fontmell in the winter of 1963 during the worst snow storms in living memory... [more]
Shared on 24 September 2006
A Boarding School second to none
What a dump Iwerne Minster was to a school boy of the 60's sent from London to that boarding school in the middle of nowhere. The locals spoke in a strange unintelligible dialect, the air was sometime thick with the stink of manure, and you had to be 14 to buy beer from the off-licence at Tarrant Hinton! Now, 50+ years... [more]
Shared on 21 May 2008
Shaftesbury's position high on a hilltop with only a meagre water supply meant that water had to be brought up to the town from wells at the bottom of the steep slopes, usually by horses and donkeys carrying barrels. Water sellers then went round the town's houses selling water by the bucketful. However, Shaftesbury's position at the crossroads of several main... [more]
Shared on 30 June 2008
This is the hill that appeared in the Hovis television adverts - supposedly in a northern town, but in reality in deepest Dorset! At the top it is about 700 feet above sea level. It is now the scene of the once a year Gold Hill Festival in July.
Shared on 08 June 2006
Extracts From Ashmore & Wiltshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Ashmore, inspired by Frith photos.
Wimborne Photographic Memories
The bank on the corner has become the Midland Bank, while across The Square the familiar names of Boots the Chemists and Foyle's Library appear on shop signs. Between them the draper Albert Hyland features a range of blouses and underwear in his window display. The centre of The Square has become a car park.
This is an extract from Wimborne Photographic Memories.
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Wimborne Photographic Memories
Less than 20 years have passed since No 52472 was taken, but motor vehicles in the High Street and The Square now outnumber horse-drawn ones by nine to one. Note also that Buddens tailors shop on the corner of The Square has been demolished and replaced by the London Joint City Bank, established in 1836.
This is an extract from Wimborne Photographic Memories.
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Wimborne Photographic Memories
The design of the Number 24 Bournemouth bus and the Morris Minor van opposite it take us firmly into the post-war years. On the far left, two of the three shops in this corner of The Square are now occupied by chemists, as one of them is today. The car park indicated at the corner of Mill Lane (left) was on the site now occupied by Safeways.
This is an extract from Wimborne Photographic Memories.
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