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Burton Bradstock, Dorset
Burton Bradstock photos
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Burton Bradstock maps
Historic maps of Burton Bradstock and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Burton Bradstock maps
Historic map of Burton Bradstock
Illustrated Victorian map of Dorset
Historic Map of any Burton Bradstock postcode
Burton Bradstock books
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Weymouth Photographic Memories
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£13
Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
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£13
Bridport Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
6 Burton Bradstock photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Burton Bradstock
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Dorset memories
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
I was sent to the Visitation Convent at the age of 6 and was there for four terrible years. Like others who have written their memories of their time at the school, for me it was a very severe, cruel, harsh enviroment, devoid of any love or affection from the nuns. The punishments were frequent, for messing my pants or wetting... [more]
Shared on 09 September 2009
I was a boarder there for about a year aged about nine or ten in about 1957. It was the unhappiest period of my life before or since. I don’t recall a moment of kindness, sympathy, or humanity from any of the nuns. As a lonely rejected child I received nothing from them but harshness, punishments, and cruelty. And I was... [more]
Shared on 09 July 2009
Extracts From Burton Bradstock & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Burton Bradstock, inspired by Frith photos.
Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories
One of the attractions of England's villages is how each one seems to play a part in the greater history of these islands. Henry III once bartered Burton Bradstock in exchange for the royal regalia, which William the Conqueror had given to Caen Abbey.
This is an extract from Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories.
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Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories
Burton Bradstock lies just inland from the sea, close to the mouth of the River Bride, a charming little Dorset stream. Burton Bradstock has many attractive buildings, such as the thatched cottages seen in this photograph.
This is an extract from Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories.
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Henry I gave the village and living of Burton Bradstock to the great Normandy abbey at Caen in exchange for the royal regalia of William the Conqueror, which the monks claimed had been gifted to them by the dying king. This lovely village was considered a reasonable exchange for England's crown jewels.
This is an extract from Dorset Pocket Album.
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