Wimborne
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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!
The Festival camp site at the QE School was well looked after by the security team and the town centre streets were packed with the usual Sunday stalls run by Dorset organisations, huge crowds and around forty morris teams from miles around. There was even a Festival church service on the Minster Green shown here in this view (although the ...read more here
Contributed by John Howard Norfolk
The Crown Tap
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.
Contributed by Michael Giles
Family connections.
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 time the photograph was taken her daughter Louisa Eliza had returned to her parents home for the birth of my mother, Ivy Emma Stickland.
Contributed by Judith Day
Corner Shop
I used to work in the shop on the corner, there is a man standing outside the door. It was called Langer and Son. It was then a saddler, sports and shoe shop. I met my husband there in 1963. We are celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary this year so this picture brings back many memories.
Contributed by Mrs C Holloway
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 High Street and The Square in particular.
In almost every year since the mid 1980's the dancers from Whitethorn Morris join in the Folk Festival together with the Whitethorn Band of accordians, melodeons, fiddles and drums. Its a colourful display of red white and blue with lively music and always draws a crowd of onlookers all day long ...read more here
Contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Extracts From Wimborne & Dorset books
The lower part of the porch is 13th-century, but its
upper storey - known as the Priest’s Room - was
added in the 15th century. It shares the distinctive
‘spotty brown and grey’ stonework which brought
the minster mixed reviews from architects and
travel writers. The porch has acquired a glass door
in recent years.
An extract from from"Wimborne Photographic Memories".
The tomb (right) contains the remains
of Gertrude, Marchioness of Exeter (died
1558), whose husband, Henry Courtenay,
was a grandson of Edward IV and
Commissioner at the trial of Anne Boleyn.
The calligraphic Ten Commandments (far
right) have been replaced by a brass to
King Ethelred, killed in battle in 871 and
buried in the Minster. It is the only brass in
England to a king.
An extract from from"Wimborne Photographic Memories".
The alabaster effigies of the armour-clad
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset,
and his wife Margaret lie recumbent on
their elaborate 15th-century tomb in
the presbytery. It was erected by their
famous daughter, Lady Margaret Beaufort
(1443-1509), who became the Countess of
Richmond and Derby and was the mother
of King Henry VII. John Beaufort was a
grandson of John of Gaunt.
An extract from from"Wimborne Photographic Memories".
A guild of wool
manufacturers used
St George’s Chapel
in medieval times.
The most striking of
its many memorials
is the colourful
monument to Sir
Edmund Uvedale,
who died in 1606.
It was made in the
Renaissance style by
an Italian sculptor,
who appears to have
given Sir Edmund two
left feet! The Beaufort
Tomb is the one at the
top of the steps.
An extract from from"Wimborne Photographic Memories".
The pulpit was less then 20 years old when
this picture was taken, as it was donated
by H G Sturt, MP (later Lord Alington), of
Crichel, near Wimborne, in 1868. Thomas
Earp’s carvings illustrate the Sermon on
the Mount and specifically feature the four
Gospel saints - Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John. The previous Jacobean pulpit is now
in the church at Holt three miles away.
An extract from from"Wimborne Photographic Memories".