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East Howe Lane (right) leads to Wimborne Road at Headless Cross. East Howe Congregational Hall on the corner displays a poster for YMCA Club events.

Morris & Ebson constructed this gaudy building, of red brick and Bath stone, between 1849-51, in the style of Henry VII, whose mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond, founded the seminary at Wimborne

West Borough's town houses are mostly mid-to late-18th century, built when this part of Wimborne was first developed. Note the first-floor bay window on the right.

East Street was still on the main road through Wimborne when this picture was taken, and the one-way traffic system was still about 15 years away.

It is hard to disagree with the Dorset writer Sir Frederick Treves's comment, made almost 100 years ago, that Wimborne 'looks its best when seen from a distance'.

The necessity of telling the time was obviously important to Wimborne folk.

Slightly more visible is the toll house at the beginning of Wimborne Road to the left. Newspapers were sold there on Sundays when the newsagents were closed.

The Portland stone bridge, built in 1813, carries the main road from Poole to Wimborne on the far bank of the River Stour.

Wimborne Street c1955.

The view looking north from the King's Head shows the National Provincial Bank on the left (now NatWest) and, opposite, the Button Shop (now the Wimborne Pottery).

Wimborne enjoys a delightful setting close to the banks of the River Stour.

Wimborne Street c1955 Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’, where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious ‘Flower-de-Luce

Canford Bridge has three arches of Portland stone over a languid length of the River Stour, and carries the road from Wimborne to Poole.

Thomas Hardy lived in Wimborne for a short period during his first marriage. The town features slightly in his novel 'Two on a Tower', which was written at that time.

Nowadays the greater part of Poole's population lives in the suburbs that have sprawled across the heathlands towards Bournemouth and Wimborne; but when this picture was taken, the residents mostly

The pulpit was less then 20 years old when this picture was taken, as it was donated by H G Sturt, MP (later Lord Alington), of Crichel, near Wimborne, in 1868.

The Coach and Horses is one of Wimborne's oldest pubs, and the only one to have retained its thatched roof to this day.

Sir Ivor and Lady Cornelia Guest, later Lord and Lady Wimborne, were supporters of the temperance movement, in furtherance of which cause they closed the Swan Inn and opened The Firs (later

Geese run loose on the grass at Mannington hamlet, midway between the villages of Holt and Horton in the hills north of Wimborne.

We are looking northwards towards the Square (centre), with 18th-century brick and tile houses on both sides of Wimborne Street.

The oldest of three chests in St George's chapel is thought to date from the time of Wimborne's monastery and nunnery.

It was bought by the council from Lord Wimborne for £560 and turned into a garden to mark Queen Victoria's Jubilee, which had been celebrated the previous year.

There were just five villas here in 1888 when Lord Wimborne built the school.

The baptistry also has a working model of the astronomical clock, made by the Wimborne clockmakers William and Ralph Kerridge in 1916.