Winterborne Kingston, Dorset
Winterborne Kingston photos
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Winterborne Kingston maps
Historic maps of Winterborne Kingston and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Winterborne Kingston maps
Winterborne Kingston books
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Memories of Winterborne Kingston
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The Fabulous Fez Heads entertain Whitethorn Morris
For very many years the dancers and musicians of Whitethorn Morris have performed in the streets at Wimborne Folk Festival each June and have been fascinated to see another team known as the "Fabulous Fez Heads" there.
This led for the first time, in 2007, to an invitation to join the Fig and Date Fayre at The Greyhound... [more]
Shared on 26 March 2007
Dorset memories
not a memory more a request for information. does anyone know the exact location and the present use of the building that was until sometime in the 1960s " Almer village school " my grand mother was the school mistress & my father & his two brothers were pupils. I have been in touch with the local inn & other local... [more]
Shared on 25 January 2008
The Village Post Office Stores
My parents bought the shop in 1952 and ran it until about 1965, it was then a very busy, thriving business, which served many of the outlying vilages.
I was just 6 when we moved down from Wolverhampton and so had many happy years of village life.
Amongst my friends were Peter & Stuart Fricker whose parents ran Frickers Bakery.... [more]
Shared on 02 December 2007
My memory of Lytchett Matravers is of the old school. It was a hundred years old in 1974 and everybody who attended the school at that time joined in the celebration. I was ten at the time and wrote a poem for my part in it all. Mrs Cox, the oldest woman in England at the time and resident of... [more]
Shared on 15 August 2008
Extracts From Winterborne Kingston & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Winterborne Kingston, inspired by Frith photos.
Wimborne Photographic Memories
The bank on the corner has become the Midland Bank, while across The Square the familiar names of Boots the Chemists and Foyle's Library appear on shop signs. Between them the draper Albert Hyland features a range of blouses and underwear in his window display. The centre of The Square has become a car park.
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Wimborne Photographic Memories
Less than 20 years have passed since No 52472 was taken, but motor vehicles in the High Street and The Square now outnumber horse-drawn ones by nine to one. Note also that Buddens tailors shop on the corner of The Square has been demolished and replaced by the London Joint City Bank, established in 1836.
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Wimborne Photographic Memories
The design of the Number 24 Bournemouth bus and the Morris Minor van opposite it take us firmly into the post-war years. On the far left, two of the three shops in this corner of The Square are now occupied by chemists, as one of them is today. The car park indicated at the corner of Mill Lane (left) was on the site now occupied by Safeways.
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