Numerous narrow streets tuck themselves away in and around Weymouth town. Ones that we don’t pay much attention to. Maybe sometimes travelling their length merely to avoid excess holiday traffic or that proliferation of poodling summertime pedestrians. They are merely a means of getting from A to B as quickly as possible, never a place to stop and admire the…
Tag: Eliza Gillingham
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…
VICTORIAN TALES FROM WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND 