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Canford Magna, Dorset
Canford Magna maps
Historic maps of Canford Magna and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Canford Magna maps
Historic map of Canford Magna
Illustrated Victorian map of Dorset
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Canford Magna books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Canford Magna and the local area. View all Canford Magna books
Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories
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£14
Dorset Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Dorset Villages Photographic Memories
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£14
11 Canford Magna photos appear in 3 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Canford Magna
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My mother was a cook at Canford School. I remember her Christmas parties being held in the great hall. It was/is such a magnificent house. Oh - happy memories.
Shared on 30 July 2009
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Ingram Richards was my grandfather. My father (John) was the only child of Ingram to emigrate (in 1927) to Australia. Dad died in 1978. I am a former Australian regular army officer and visited Wimborne on a couple of occasions in the 1970s while on exchange in Germany with the British Army and later when on a secondment to the School... [more]
Shared on 08 October 2009
Hobbs, Haywards and Quarterjack Toys
My parents bought the shop and house in the foreground in 1980. You could just see a 'Hobbs' sign painted on the front of the building and Mr L E Hayward had a toy and pram shop there which he had run since just after the war, I think. You can still see his shop in the model town in Wimborne.... [more]
Shared on 15 July 2009
I can remember being a very nervous new entrant to the Grammar School and going to Langers to buy a tennis racket and hockey stick. The public conveniences and telephone box were opposite, if I remember rightly.
Shared on 01 April 2009
Whitethorn Morris at Wimborne Folk Festival - 2008
I enjoyed this 2008 Wimborne Folk Festival and consider it one of the best of the many I have performed at with Whitethorn Morris over the last 20 plus years. The Saturday procession was packed with spectators enjoying both the performers and the glorious weather - there must have been hundreds watching from the Minster Green alone!
Shared on 17 June 2008
My wife was born in the crown tap in 1959 her parents i believe were the last tennants of the pub. One of the stained glass windows was on display in the priest house musem.
Shared on 25 January 2008
Morris Dancing at Wimborne Folk Festival in 2007
Wimborne Folk Festival takes place every year in June - it is a glorious mixture of dancing, music and dressing up with visitors from all over England bringing their entertainment to the streets, squares and pubs of this pretty town. The festival attracts morris dancers and musicians who are delighted to perform in front of the huge crowds thronging the... [more]
Shared on 18 June 2007
The lady standing on the bridge is my great grandmother Hannah Elton nee Churchill and the small boy her grandson, Cecil Henry Stickland, my uncle. He became the verger at Christchurch Priory. Hannah lived with her husband Henry, a carpenter, in the cottage to the left of the photograph just out of shot. Hannah was the local midwife and at the... [more]
Shared on 06 April 2006
Extracts From Canford Magna & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Canford Magna, 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... [more]
This is an extract from Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories.
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Canford Manor, not far from Wimborne, dates from the early years of the 19th century, though it stands on the site of an ancient house which once belonged to the Earls of Salisbury. The present building, now a public school, was for many years the country seat of Lord Wimborne.
This is an extract from Dorset Pocket Album.
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Canford Manor, not far from Wimborne, dates from the early years of the 19th century, though it stands on the site of an ancient house which once belonged to the Earls of Salisbury. The present building, now a public school, was for many years the country seat of Lord Wimborne.
This is an extract from Dorset Photographic Memories.
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