by Anthony Harrison | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog
This is the first of two posts on the primordial role of the River Frome in creating the prosperous county town in which we now live. Since pre-Roman England wherever humans have tilled the soil, streams have been used to power waterwheels to mill the corn and other...
by Anthony Harrison | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog
I recently visited the former Royal Hospital for Seamen in Greenwich, part of which is now occupied by the Maritime Museum, and I was struck by its close links to Dorset. THE EARLY GREENWICH PALACE Its site on the south bank of the Thames, downstream from the City of...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 12, 2025 | Events
Time: 7.30-8.30pm, Tuesday 4th February 2025 Place: The talk will be delivered by Zoom DCS Zoom is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: DCS February Talk – Zoom only Time: Feb 4, 2025 07:30 PM London Join Zoom Meeting...
by Anthony Harrison | Nov 28, 2024 | Events
Due to unforeseen circumstances with our speaker for the evening, we have unfortunately had to postpone our planned talk for December 5th on the Hardye Screen. We will be looking to reschedule this for early in the New Year, so watch out for further updates here, on...
by Anthony Harrison | Nov 8, 2024 | Blog
Almost immediately after the outbreak of the 1914-8 War a decision was made to house a prisoner of war camp within the precincts of the Royal Horse Artillery Barracks on the north- west outskirts of the town, at what has now in part become the Poundbury Industrial...
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