Corfe Mullen, c.1960
Photo ref: C596002
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Photo ref: C596002
Photo of Corfe Mullen, c.1960

More about this scene

The view is from Lockyers School looking down Blandford Road North. The telephone box has been replaced by one of modern design, while the oak (far left), planted for the 1953 coronation, has flourished along with its companion. To the right was Violet Farm, where violets and raspberries were grown commercially; here the popular Lloyd George raspberry cane was developed by a keen Liberal!

A Selection of Memories from Corfe Mullen

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Corfe Mullen

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My very earliest memory takes me back to the Second World War. My parents were renting a house in Wareham Road. Dad was working at the RN Cordite Factory at Holton Heath. It was dark, and he was due home at any time. There was an air raid on, and German bombers were attacking Holton Heath - or it may have been the decoy factory in Poole Harbour, I could not have been more than two or three (I'm now ...see more
In the 50's there was a clay mine,as opposed to an open pit, which was in Candy's Lane. The clay was loaded into railway wagons an taken by rail to a siding in the old Carters works on the Backwater side of the Blandford road.
Hello, I was at this children's home for a few months around Christmas time around 1947-49. I am trying to put the pieces together as to why I was sent there and what it was all about, as my family never wanted to discuss this time. I remember we went to see Old Mother Riley in pantomine and there was a older girl called Connie there at the time who tried to escape at one ...see more