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East Brook in Wimborne Minster in 1912. Henry Lovell's coachbuilding works was Wimborne's first garage

Wimborne Minster in Dorset, discover its past and present
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High Street in Swanage looking towards George Burt's Purbeck House, where he lived with his wife and six children, and the Town Hall of 1881 (once five cottages)

Swanage town in Dorset, discover its past and present
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Market day in Sturminster Newton in 1906. The fortnightly Monday market moved from the town square later that year to a site near the station

Sturminster Newton in Dorset, discover its past and present
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Cheap Street Sherborne around 1900. On the left is the tailor Charles Lowman, seen outside his shop. Opened as a milliners and dressmakers in 1830, they sold clothing in one form or another until 1999

Sherborne town in Dorset, discover its past and present
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A view of Weymouth Harbour in 1900. Nearly all the buildings are still standing today including The Royal Oak and The Ship pubs, behind the barge is the covered Fish Market

Weymouth town in Dorset, discover its past and present
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East Street in Wareham around the 1900s. The pump outside the Town Hall, one of eight providing drinking water until piped water arrived in 1906. The bell tower on the right was on the original Georgian Town Hall, rebuilt in 1870 by George Crickmay

Wareham town in Dorset, discover its past and present
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Shaftesbury High Street, with the old brick-built Mitre Inn wedged between Young & Sons ironmongers and the Town Hall whose wooden clock tower was rebuilt in stone after the First World War

Shaftesbury in Dorset, discover its past and present
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Portland sheep being driven through Fortuneswell in about 1900. Rough ground of the rock-strewn coastal slopes were grazed by the island's own hardy breed of sheep. Hardy and small, they were prized for their fleece and mutton, and lambed all year round

Dorset's Isle of Portland, discover its past and present
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The High Street in Gillingham, both buildings on the right were built in the 1870s with the arrival of the railway. The tall building on the left, Cheapside House was George and Elizabeth Fish's drapers and outfitters, its now the Post Office

Gillingham town in Dorset, discover its past and present
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