Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Three Legged Cross maps
Historic maps of Three Legged Cross and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Three Legged Cross maps
Three Legged Cross photos
We have no photos of Three Legged Cross, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Mannington, Verwood, St Ives, EllinghamThree Legged Cross books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Three Legged Cross and the local area. View all Three Legged Cross books
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Memories of Three Legged Cross
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Dorset memories
I don't remember the year but I think it was in the 1950s. Where exactly was the Ferndown Zoo? I have a photo of one of my cousins taken with a goat. I really don't remember much about it, I just know I went at least three times. Please help.
Shared on 21 November 2009
(Not just 1955, probably most of the 1950s.)
When my mother was a little girl, she was looked after by a nanny, who in her later years lived at Fairways, a bungalow at the end of Carroll Avenue. In the 1950s when I was very young, we used to visit what seemed a large bungalow in a very large garden... [more]
Shared on 17 March 2009
My sister remembers cycling to Gaunts Common just after my great-grandfather died, my great-grandmother stayed at a house there, there was an old railway carraige in the garden which was used as a caravan, and my grandmother stayed there for a while. The owners were probably Steele-Bartlett-Sweatland or Chalk, all family names. Also there was a photo of my great-great-grandfather Edward... [more]
Shared on 19 October 2009
Sister Enid Butler's Orphanage.
I was a child that lived at the 'Sister Butler's orphanage' in the early I960s. This message is to anyone that was also at the orphanage at that time, particularly Alison Burbidge, as I have read her account stating that Alison would have been at the orphanage at the same time as me. I have a lot of memories of... [more]
Shared on 19 June 2009
There was also another lady, sadly deceased, called Mrs Sturney that would have adopted me but was sadly considered "too old". Any information on these people gladly welcomed. Mrs Sturney's first name was Gwendoline as far as I can remember
Shared on 11 November 2008
I was looked after by a lovely lady called Sister (Enid) Butler who took in unwanted children until they were re- homed either by fostering or adoption (this was me).
There was a young lad there called Peter who allegedly set fire to the original building with a cigarette end. I was adopted in about 1962 by a family who lived... [more]
Shared on 11 November 2008
I was the Head Teacher of the Cranborne First School from 1974-1978. The school was situated just off the square. It was a delightful little school and I have happy memories of my time there with my two teachers: Mrs Barbara Bayes and Mrs Gawman (who succeeded me as Head). Lord Salisbury was the Chairman of our Governors and occasionally I... [more]
Shared on 11 May 2009
I am only 23, but I remember the shoe shop very well, as it belonged to my grandfather Alex Adams, and had been in the family for many years. And I do believe the child being walked up the road is my mum Linda Bright, nee Adams, and her gran, my great-gran Emma Adams. She would have been 2-3 years old.... [more]
Shared on 23 February 2009
Extracts From Three Legged Cross & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Three Legged Cross, inspired by Frith photos.
Boscombe and Southbourne Photographic Memories
there is more than a hint of the building's school past in this picture. the somewhat shabby billiard room looks suspiciously like a girls' dormitory or perhaps a gym!
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Bournemouth Photographic Memories
Paddle steamers arrive and depart from Boscombe's pier during its Edwardian heyday. The construction of a pier marked the town's determination to make its mark as a holiday resort, and not to be overshadowed by its larger neighbour. This structure, as with the pier at Bournemouth, was severely damaged during the Second World War, but both have been sympathetically restored. A third pier at Southbourne did not survive.
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Bournemouth Photographic Memories
Bournemouth, once in Hampshire but now in Dorset, did not exist two hundred years ago. In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a holiday home on lonely heathland, close to the mouth of the tiny River Bourne. Other wealthy gentlemen followed his example, but it was to be the middle of that century before the town achieved popularity as a holiday resort.
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