Much like today, the Victorians had their fare share of petty criminals or well know characters around town, those that must just have made the local bobby shake their heads when they come across them yet again. We might well think that bad behaviour and drunkenness in the streets is a new phenomenon, but believe…
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Weymouth 1723 and the corruption of elections.
Weymouth down through it’s past history had a record of being a ‘rotten borough’ when it came to electing M.P’s. It had one of the highest number of M.P’s for a town so small as this! At one time we could send 4 to the houses of Parliament. Well, when I say we, what was…
VICTORIAN TALES FROM WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND 