The Finest in Motion Picture Entertainment at the Savoy April 1958
…1930’s in the stage show and film ‘Me and My Girl’. As Cockney Bill Snibson he inherits a country estate, to which he invites his Lambeth pals. The ‘Lambeth Walk’…
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…1930’s in the stage show and film ‘Me and My Girl’. As Cockney Bill Snibson he inherits a country estate, to which he invites his Lambeth pals. The ‘Lambeth Walk’…
Shaftesbury’s Blue Plaques In August 2021 the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset unveiled a brand new blue plaque commemorating the life of nineteenth century reformer, human rights campaigner and philanthropist John…
…Dorset, in 1919. ‘Rawly’ (second from the left, above) was a career professional soldier who in 1914 commanded a significant part of the small British Expeditionary Force in Belgium facing…
In October 1899 Shaftesbury Council built a temporary grandstand, capacity 800, opposite the Town Hall in anticipation of a Royal Visit. The streets were festooned with bunting, and a competition…
…cruel – worse even than his brother [Richard I], the worst king England ever had. John lost Normandy and most of the Angevin lands in France; he provoked a rebellion…
…is contrary to divine law, abominable to God, condemned and prohibited by every law; she has dressed and armed herself in the habit and role of a man, has committed…
…“London and Dorset: A Shared History in Construction”, is free to members of The Shaftesbury & District Historical Society, while open to the public on payment of £3 at the…
…original Royal Oak at Boscobel, while Parliamentary troopers searched for him below. On Tuesday 04 April at 2.30pm at Gold Hill Museum Paul Cordle tells the gripping story of Charles’s…
…formed a guard of honour at the church. The public-spirited nature of the family’s extraordinary contribution to life in Shaftesbury is captured in this free temporary exhibition which runs until…
…Shaftesbury Fringe. As ever, entrance was free, as were many of the 14 Fringe performances in the Anna McDowell Garden Room. Though she is Chair of the Trustees of The…