by Anthony Harrison | Feb 4, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
Sounds like the start of a really bad dad joke, right…….? Join Dorchester Sheroes in their quest to erect Dorchester’s first non-royal female statue and celebrate an overlooked shero from our past. This project aims to be a collaborative, community-led campaign...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 18, 2024 | Events
Dorford Centre, Bridport Road, Dorchester 19:30 to 20:45 Recording can be found here on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWcjWO0ZVEA The invention and evolution of the Georgian landscape garden liberated garden buildings from the corset of formality, allowing...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog
By Ian Gosling, DCS Chair The Town Pump on Cornhill was erected in 1784, on the site of the cupola which served as the town’s Market House. It takes the form of a tall tapering square stone shaft obelix on a rectangular base, decorated with five horizontal...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog
Please be aware that this blog piece contains graphic details of Hugh Green’s execution! In my post this summer on public statues in Dorchester I included Elizabeth Frink’s Memorial to Dorchester’s Catholic Martyrs at the top of Icen Way at the spot known as...
by Anthony Harrison | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog
By Ian Gosling, DCS Chair There were three distinct phases in the provision of Workhouses in Dorchester. THE ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PERIOD. The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 confirmed earlier practices by creating a system of relief of the poor administered at Parish...
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