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Long Bredy, Cheney Road c.1950
Photo ref: L478002
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More about this scene

A walk along the downlands around Long Bredy shows this to be a very old landscape, with barrows and monoliths from prehistory and ridge paths from more recent times. This lonely land was well protected by the Home Guard during the Second World War, when there was a great fear of invasion - just as there had been 150 years earlier during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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

Sparked a Memory for you?

If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

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