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…
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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 