S&DHS Members Snap Up Signed Copies of Shaftesbury Through Time
At the official launch party held at Gold Hill Museum on 28 March, over forty members and friends of The Shaftesbury & District Historical Society were quick to snap up…
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At the official launch party held at Gold Hill Museum on 28 March, over forty members and friends of The Shaftesbury & District Historical Society were quick to snap up…
…accessible to the community as a result of months of cataloguing during Lockdown by an expanded team of volunteers. There is no charge for entry to Gold Hill Museum, which…
…early 20th centuries. The history of their use is explained, together with their secret language. It could be that Sheena Commons (left) and Margaret Baxter are signalling “Follow me” or…
New President of The Shaftesbury & District Historical Society, Jo Rutter [photograph, left] prefaced the Teulon Porter Memorial Lecture given in Shaftesbury Town Hall on the evening of 06 October…
…stone. Statuary in the architrave of the front door from Mercers’ Hall. One critic described this as “positively dreadful. If ever a book comes to be written on How to…
…Abbey. (Episode 7: Rejection. Available for one month at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gl8v ) It is the autumn of 1536 and Cromwell is the second most powerful man in the land, after his…
…to future generations. Over 100 stories have been added thus far and there are very many known names still to research, but given that many of the Service Records were…
…products. BV Dairy also produce cultured milk and yogurt drinks for the retail sector. See www.bvdairy.co.uk, or telephone 01747 851 855. Click here for a podcast created by Keri Jones….
…middle of a dogfight with a German Aviatik, the ammunition drum on his Lewis machine gun had jammed. When Strange stood up to try and free the magazine, the notoriously…
An all-age Autumn Crafts Day at Gold Hill Museum on Wednesday 25 October will enable participants to try their hand at pressing apples, making Dorset buttons, and clay and paper…