Maiden Newton, 1906
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The working lives of the Dorset labourers who lived in cottages like these was hard, with poor wages and long hours. One of Thomas Hardy's few forays into politics was to champion the cause of better treatment for rural workers.
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A Selection of Memories from Maiden Newton
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 Maiden Newton
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I lived here as a child of nine in 1950-1. We rented it from the owner, the delightful Sylvia Townsend Warner, author, who lived there with her partner, Valentine Ackland. The house literally stands with one wall in the river Frome. Paintings which hung about the house by "John Crask" must have had a special significance for the couple. You could sit in the library and watch the rabbits on the ...see more
George Coombs was born in Maiden Newton in 1773. He later took a soldier's grant of 200 acres in Ontario - where we still live.
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