I shall take you for a nostalgic stroll down what was once a very well-heeled and extremely busy street, bustling with numerous shops, businesses and public houses. The main fairway for most of the thousands of Victorian train travellers into and out of the town.
Author: cannasue
Victorian Weymouth; Bicycle Club.
Cycling, or rather as the Victorians referred to it, bicycling, became a popular up and coming sport in the late Victorian era, and some Weymouth residents were quick off the mark to take up this past time. As usual, there were those who took it very seriously, they’d formed a Bicycle Club in the town, but as…
Weymouth’s Long History with Luxury Yachts.
I had always heard my Dad talk about the Yacht Regattas that used to take place in our beautiful bay in the early 20th c, and the luxurious and immense vessels that would sail into view in all their glory to attend these momentous occasions. Like most self-centred youth, it used to go in on…
Cycling on the Weymouth Esplanade…nothing’s new under the sun!
Ever since the Georgian era the beautiful curve of Weymouth Esplanade was the place to be seen. This grand gravelled walk, defined on one side by the sea wall and the other by its reknown line of white Portland stone posts and chains was where people from all walks of life like to promenade of a…
Lennox Street; 1915
Lennox Street; 1915 Taken from the Weymouth website that covers the Park district.
http://www.ifwallscouldtalk.org.uk/ranelagh-road-weymouth-1920/
Not with the Victorian period, but with the commemorations of WWI coming up, I thought something from around that period might be appropriate. These are two of the buildings in Ranelagh Road mentioned in the piece, The top one is what was once the Ranelagh Hotel and public house, sitting at the start of the road…
The Victorians love of seaside fairy lights.
Living in a traditional seaside town as I do, I have grown up with, always loved, and miss terribly, the good old fairy lights that used to be displayed around the promenade, someone had rather poetically described them as a ‘necklace of lights,’ and that is just what they were, colourful jewels that once adorned…
The Victorian Backwater…fowling pieces, ospreys, auks and otters.
The Backwater, or Radipole Lake played a large part of my childhood. I spent a lot of my childhood playing in and around here, I fished for eels from the riverside with nothing but a stick, string and bent pin for a hook,(not very successfully I hasten to add,) I watched the swans build their nests…
Fishing for trouble, Weymouth quayside 1887.
Weymouth harbour early morning is a beautiful tranquil place, with only the local fishermen busy on board their vessels getting ready to set out to sea, but as the day picks up, so the harbourside begins to fill with boats of all shapes and sizes and people, some working and those out enjoying themselves. So…
Who’s a naughty boy then? Victorian prisoners, were they really all bad?.
The Prison Registers contain many intriguing stories within their yellowed pages, and the faded elegant script tells us of our ancestors past lives. They are just a tiny snapshot of their life’s story, but can reveal a great deal about the person or the family. On the very last day of the year 1872, James…
VICTORIAN TALES FROM WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND 