DCS Visit to Sherborne – Thursday 18th July
by Anthony Harrison | July 4, 2024 | Events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Tickets still available if anyone missed the emails - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/924245532267/preview DORCHESTER CIVIC SOCIETY VISIT TO THE SHELL HOUSE AND SHERBORNE HOUSE ON THURSDAY 18THJULY 2024. We have organised this visit as a follow up to Stephan Pitman’s...
May 7th Talk from Peter Bowyer postponed until later in the year
by Anthony Harrison | April 30, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments
Salisbury Visit hosted by Salisbury Civic Society
by Anthony Harrison | April 13, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/salisbury-visit-hosted-by-salisbury-civic-society-tickets-878088585597 Members of Dorchester Civic Society are invited to visit Salisbury for a series of cultural and historical talks and tours. Agenda Morning focus: Women in...
Tuesday 23rd April – The Transformation of Dorchester at the Close of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries
by Anthony Harrison | April 5, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments
For anyone unable to join us in person, here is the link to the recording of the talk. https://us02web.zoom.us/clips/share/17RWC1QHmRescjuGZGv0LOGU5v6XpjV3hwN_HWrUfk-xpW-umW2d5JiidYDK0HlwS45vaQ.heYsugd-b4xEF_P2 Join us at The Dorford Centre on Bridport Road at 7.30PM...
Tue 5th March – Building a Sustainable New Community at Nansledan (Cornwall)
by Anthony Harrison | March 1, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments
Tuesday 5th March at the Dorford Centre 7.30PM Ben Murphy, Estates Director at The Duchy of Cornwall, will describe and analyse the Duchy's new development project in Cornwall. He will reflect on the lessons learnt from Poundbury and comment on the ability of other...
Update Talks Programme for 2024
by Anthony Harrison | February 7, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments
We have a revised line up of talks for the first half of 2024 now covering March, April and May, further details will be posted as individual events so watch this space for updates! 2023_24 Talks Programme v5
Tuesday 6th Feb 2024 – Georgian Arcadia: Architecture for the Park and Garden
by Anthony Harrison | January 18, 2024 | Events | 0 Comments
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...
Tuesday 3rd October 7.30pm at The Dorford Centre. How to do Social Housing – the Vienna model by Pauline Crump
by Anthony Harrison | September 20, 2023 | Events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
How to do Social Housing – the Vienna model. Visitors to Vienna probably won’t be surprised to hear that in 2023, (and for the eighth time!) Vienna has been declared the most liveable city in the world by the Global Liveability Index compiled by the Economist...
Talks Programme for 2022-2023
by Anthony Harrison | January 6, 2023 | Events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Here are all the details of the current programme, more to be added as soon as they are arranged! DCS Talks Programme 2022-2023
Updated! Tuesday 7th March – Historic Maps of Dorset
by Anthony Harrison | January 6, 2023 | Events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We are delighted to announce that we have managed to secure David Beaton, author of Dorset Maps published by Dovecote Press, to deliver this presentation. It will cover the history of map-making in general and Dorset in particular to show how different political,...