Brunel – VICTORIAN TALES FROM WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND

The Great Eastern links to Weymouth and Portland Roads.

I have spent years studying the lives of military men based at the Nothe in Weymouth during the Victorian era and in the course of sifting through old newspapers have uncovered many other fascinating snippets of Weymouth and Portland life that I hadn’t known about. One advantage to being based high up on the Nothe,…

Park Street, Weymouth; 1901

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.