The seeming reluctance of the British nation to take an interest in general politics is not a new phenomenon! In the newspapers of May 1835 covering events at Weymouth is a report of similar apathy for the selected local MP’s. During April of 1835 a much planned and publicised dinner was to be uth melcombe…
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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 