Worth Matravers, St Nicholas's Church 1899
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A concrete telephone kiosk and the Post Office (centre) stand behind military barbed wire at Tyneham. The public telephone has been identified by Michael Thomas as a K1 Mark 236 box of 1927, of which about 4,500 were erected, with a roof sign dating from 1929. Inside the building, the Post Office line was Kimmeridge 221. Mrs Gwendoline Driscoll was the shopkeeper when Tyneham was secretly evacuated on the orders of Churchill's War Cabinet, on Sunday 19 December 1943.

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My grandparents who lived in London bought Stoneleigh in 1926 and this is where my grandmother lived during WWII away from the bombing in the city. My grandfather, mother and her foster brother would come down when on leave. But before the war when my mother was a small child they used to have a great time with their friends down at Winspit swimming off the rocks and camping in the ...see more