by Anthony Harrison | Apr 16, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
Until the end of the First World War Dorchester would have been full of horses, mounted by their owners, pulling the carriages of the wealthy and the middle classes, hauling goods waggons and the carts of tradesmen, farmers and common carriers and, of course, the...
by Anthony Harrison | Apr 16, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
DORCHESTER’S STREETS AND UTILITIES The earliest bylaw I have found dealing with public hygiene in Dorchester dates from 12th January 1693 when the Quarter Sessions Court sitting in the Borough ordered, “that every Inhabitant within this Borough in every Street thereof...
by Anthony Harrison | Feb 7, 2024 | Blog
DORCHESTER JAILS (by Ian Gosling) The original gaol was said to be situated on the corner of Icen Way and High East Street, then called Gaol Lane, on a site which was rebuilt in the mid-18th century. It was close to Gallows Hill, at the other end of Gaol Lane, where...
by Anthony Harrison | Feb 4, 2024 | Blog
As you may have seen in the local press, the Dorchester Civic Society has launched a campaign to reinstate The Derek Beauchamp Design Award in 2024 to mark the 50th anniversary of the society You can nominate a building or a project that has been completed since 2017...
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 | 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...
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