"Legend has it that the villages of Puddletown and Briantspuddle, which used to contain the word ‘piddle’, changed their village titles to avoid embarrassing Queen Victoria whilst she was visiting." So says the newly-published Little Book of Dorset. Is it true? …
Michel Hooper-Immins feels well restored after a good lunch of Lyme Bay fish and some well-kept real ale.…
YOU KNOW the scenario – you’ve arrived in a place you don’t know well and you need to find a fine pint of real ale – and a good lunch. Here to help you around West Dorset is the new Campaign for Real Ale guide, listing all 273 pubs in the…
LOCAL HISTORIAN and Lyme Regis Museum trustee Ken Gollop has been honoured for his contributions to maritime history with an award from the South West Maritime History Society. …
SIR ANTHONY JOLLIFFE GBE DL DSc has announced that he will retire, after 28 years as President of the Society of Dorset Men, at the annual meeting next April. The only Weymouth man to become Lord Mayor of London told 187 members of the society at the annual County Dinner, held…
THE STORY of how a young West Dorset farm labourer came to be murdered in Siberia is uncovered in the November issue of the excellent parish magazine, the Eggardon & Colmer’s View. The fate of Harry Marsh has been researched, ahead of Remembrance Day, by the military historian Richard Connaughton,…
Books on sale from his collection remind me, uncomfortably, of my own encounters with the irascible author of The French Lieutenant's Woman…
