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Beaminster, Dorset
Beaminster maps
Historic maps of Beaminster and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Beaminster maps
Historic map of Beaminster
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Beaminster books
Displaying 3 of 13 books about Beaminster and the local area. View all Beaminster books
Weymouth Photographic Memories
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Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
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Dorset Photographic Memories
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1 Beaminster photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Beaminster
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My folks live in Beaminster, and I also did in the early 1980s, and remember Furze Lane. The lane goes up from the Bridport Road across country to the Posy Tree at Mapperton. Although it has changed now, i.e. widened, as it is now suitable for vehicles, I think that the building on the left could be the farm buildings at... [more]
Shared on 19 April 2009
Dorset memories
I have happy memories of Corscombe. Having been evacuated from Southampton at the age of eight years. I do remember attending the small school a short distance from where I lived in a small house that had been converted into two living quarters
I have not been back to Corscombe since those wartime days.
Shared on 10 December 2008
We were clearing the last furniture from my mother's bungalow a few weeks ago. A heartbreaking task, having lost her in April. Behind the last set of drawers, on the floor, I found an old sepia photograph. It showed a group of children with some adults, outside a building which must have been a chapel or a school. From the clothes... [more]
Shared on 06 October 2007
Haywards of Loders - family tree search
Hello from Australia to Loders,
Researching on-line family Thomas Hayward, m Mary Anne Dodge 1808 November in Sherborne church. Already one gggg cousin Jill Hayward left an entry but has not made contact. Another gggg cousin Ingrid Wilson in Wallingford, Berkshire has made contact via this website.
Thomas's son John went to farm in Englefield, Berkshire and is my... [more]
Shared on 12 July 2009
Wondering if anyone knows of Hayward family, buried in the churchyard surrounds, that farmed in the Loders area back to at least 1750 or further back. Any info for family tree welcome.
Shared on 17 August 2007
John (1813) moved to Berkshire. Thomas (1787), Robert (1759) and John(1738) are all connected to Loders by being born, baptised, married and buried here, or in surrounding villages. Their ancestral home one might say. Still tracing them further via Dorset OPC and BT records. Collecting any photos related to these ancestors of mine and where they lived. Photos bring back happy... [more]
Shared on 12 May 2007
Since my blog of 2007 concerning my time as a boarder at the Visitation Convent school 1942-1947, I have noted with interest that other former pupils (though not from the years I was there) have commented on their experiences of the place. Mostly, their memories are sad and bitter ones. It has made me think back again at my years there.... [more]
Shared on 07 October 2009
I was disturbed to read the Memory posted in early September from a contemporary about our common primary school, Bridport Visitation Convent. It was reprinted in the Bridport News of October 1st so needs to be balanced I feel. That gentleman clearly doesn't remember his time there with relish but I wonder why he didn't put his schooldays into the context... [more]
Shared on 03 October 2009
Extracts From Beaminster & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Beaminster, inspired by Frith photos.
Beaminster today is not so very different from the old Dorset village that the dialect poet William Barnes would have known. Its name is always pronounced Be'mister as in Barnes's famous poem, and it remains the quaint old market town it always was.
This is an extract from Dorset Pocket Album.
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In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach. The New Inn, shown here, was favoured by rural workers who would come to sample Mr Weaver's famous ales.
This is an extract from Dorset Pocket Album.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach. The New Inn, shown here, was favoured by rural workers who would come to sample Mr Weaver's famous ales.
This is an extract from Dorset Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
