Long Bredy, Main Street c.1950
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Photo ref: L478001
Photo of Long Bredy, Main Street c.1950

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This is an old village, but there are plenty of older habitations nearby: this part of Dorset boasts an impressive collection of earthworks, burial barrows, ancient ridge paths and strip lynchets.

A Selection of Memories from Long Bredy

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 Long Bredy

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We moved from Weymouth to Kingston Russel just after have taken the 11+ exam at St. John's school. When I started at Long Bredy school I only remember one classroom and one teacher. Hand bells and country dancing stick in my memory as things that we did there. And the teacher taught me how to build a model glider from a kit. I was very struck by the dialect of my new school friends who used words that were like ...see more