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Shaftesbury's bad reputation!
Shaftesbury's position high on a hilltop with only a meagre water supply meant that water had to be brought up to the town from wells at the bottom of the steep slopes, usually by horses and donkeys carrying barrels. Water sellers then went round the town's houses selling water by the bucketful. However, Shaftesbury's position at the crossroads of several main coaching routes meant that it was abundantly supplied with inns and beer houses. This scarcity of water and preponderance of inns, together with the fact that the churchyard for the now vanished St John’s Church (on St John’s Hill) was set on a steep slope high above the church itself, prompted Thomas Hardy's famous description of the town in his ...read more here
A memory of Shaftesbury contributed by Julia Skinner
Hovis Hill
This is the hill that appeared in the Hovis television adverts - supposedly in a northern town, but in reality in deepest Dorset! At the top it is about 700 feet above sea level. It is now the scene of the once a year Gold Hill Festival in July.
A memory of Shaftesbury contributed by John Buck
Going to school
I well remember going to the Catholic church as between 1948 and 1954 I attended St Mary's Roman Catholic School. When I first went to the school it was the old school and in 1953 a new one was opened close to the church and we all thought it was great as we had inside toilets and everything was new. The Head mistess was Miss Read.
A memory of Marnhull contributed by Pamela Phillips
The Mount
My great aunt Emilly Still lived in the bungalow in the background and we as children spent many happy summer holidays in Fontmell Magna. She and Tom (who I never knew) are buried in the church graveyard.
I remember travelling from our home in Kent to Fontmell in the winter of 1963 during the worst snow storms in living memory to help my mother's aunt.
If anyone reads this I would love to find out more about Tom and Emily. I have visited Fontmell in recent years to put flowers on the grave.
A memory of Fontmell Magna contributed by Ian Hills
Extracts From Allington & Wiltshire books
Another view of the
school buildings, seen
from the opposite side.
At this time, this site had
only been occupied by
the school for no more
than a year.
An extract from from"Sherborne Photographic Memories".
Looking east, we see on
the left the businesses of W
Warr & Son, hairdressing
and chiropody, and Pedley &
White, drapers and outfitters.
In the distance is Greenham’s
butchers. Next to this is
Frisby’s, a well-known shoe chain.
An extract from from"Sherborne Photographic Memories".
In the 19th century,
this road was known
as Coldharbour Lane
and was built up as
the Avenue during the
Victorian and Edwardian
periods. Hill House, on
the left, was built for
the Reverend Arthur
Field in 1899. In 1978
the grounds were used
for building and the
development known as
Hill House Close was
born. At the ‘top’ end
of the Avenue stands
Quarry House, built
in 1924 for the writer
Littleton Powys, designed
by his architect brother
Albert Powys. The road
in the distance bends to
the left and emerges into Newland.
An extract from from"Sherborne Photographic Memories".
Until mid-Victorian times,
this part of the road,
known now as Greenhill,
had been called New
Well Hill. Here, we are
looking towards the
Green at the turn of the
century. This scene has
changed little over 100
years although it is never
this quiet today with
much traffic on the main A30.
An extract from from"Sherborne Photographic Memories".
Sherborne School for Girls dating from 1899 and founded by Mrs Kenelm
Wingfield Digby, is here seen on Bradford Road - its home from 1903. Prior to this,
the school had been in Ramsam House at Greenhill.
An extract from from"Sherborne Photographic Memories".