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Dorset Pocket Album
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Dorset Living Memories
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Wimborne Photographic Memories
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I was one of 14 cyclists from Sussex who descended upon Cerne Abbas on Good Friday 1962, staying until Easter Monday. We literally descended, as the route we used was to come over the hill from Piddletrenthide swooping down the narrow lane into the village. We had left Sussex that Friday morning at about 7am and arrived in Cerne at about 7pm. We were 8 blokes and 6 girls and we were booked in at the Old Cerne Union workhouse, then doing bed and breakfast, now in 2007 a rest home. Torrential rain on the Saturday didn't stop us visiting Weymouth but on Sunday, when we went to Sherborne and Sturminster Newton the sun came out to allow us to don shorts for the first time that year. But the real enjoyment came from the two evenings spent in Cerne, especially Saturday night at The Royal Oak. In 1962 the pub bar area was much smaller than today, but we crowded in there, drinking the pub dry of draught Taunton Cider and eating them out of pickled eggs. We had a great party with sing songs, jokes and laughter. As the evening went on the pub seemed to become busier and busier, the bar fuller and fuller. I remember one of our number asking the landlord if his pub was always this busy on a Saturday night. "Nah, they's cumin' in yere to see you lot".
Shared on 11 November 2007
The 1st Hatch End Scouts camp at Piddletrenthide
THis view is EXACTLY as I remember this lovely village where the scouts from Hatch End spent a two week summer camp in 1957.
Although I no longer recall the name of the particular farm where we set up camp, I do remember our troop carrying out a good turn for the farmer. We were asked to demolish one of the ruined outbuildings and a month or so later we received an impressive scroll from him giving us the "right to call ourselves barnstormers and to march over his land forever with flags flying and knives unsheathed". A great impression on this 11 year old! The farmer's scroll was displayed in the Scout Hut back in Hatch End for many years as we all had such lovely memories of our two weeks in Piddletrenthide!
Shared on 03 August 2008
Extracts From Buckland Newton & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Buckland Newton, inspired by Frith photos.
Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
Canford House is Poole’s manor house, which dates from 1450. In the early 19th century this was the home of William Ponsonby, brother of Byron’s lover Lady Caroline Lamb. Ponsonby’s wife, Lady Barbara, was the sister of the reformer Lord Shaftesbury. In 1846 Sir John Guest, of Guest Keen & Nettlefold, the iron and steel magnate, bought Canford and employed Charles Barry, whose Palace of Westminster was still being built, to enlarge the house. Guest was so extravagant that he became known as ‘paying Guest’. His son Ivor, who in 1880 was made Lord Wimborne, welcomed many visitors, including the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), Lady Wimborne’s nephew Winston Churchill, and the poet Rupert Brooke. The house became Canford School in 1922.
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Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
Here we see the south side of Wimborne’s square at a time when the bank was called the Midland. This, with the nearby Minster, was the heart of the town. Sir John Guest’s son Ivor took his title - Lord Wimborne - from the name of the town when he was elevated to the peerage in 1880.
This is an extract from Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories.
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Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
Here we see the south side of Wimborne’s square at a time when the bank was called the Midland. This, with the nearby Minster, was the heart of the town. Sir John Guest’s son Ivor took his title - Lord Wimborne - from the name of the town when he was elevated to the peerage in 1880.
This is an extract from Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories.
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