But despite the committee’s numerous efforts to rouse any interest in what should have been a grand occasion, out of the 600 people eligible to vote in the town, only 53 of those could be persuaded to attend to meal…and they even had to give the tickets away to entice them to the event.
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Opening of New Weymouth & Melcombe Regis Town Bridge 1824.
Anyone interested in the long history of our town will know of it’s somewhat turbulent beginnings. The harbour was the dividing line…at times literally the front line of the ‘war zone.’ Modern day Weymouth started life as two completely separate towns very much at odds with each other. Old Weymouth straggled along the harbourside of the…
VICTORIAN TALES FROM WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND 