We’ll start with a touch of Christmastide shenanigans. A well respected farmer and businessman, Thomas Hole, was stood in the dock garbed only in a sheet and rug, much to the amusement of the court’s public attendees, in stark contrast his hands and face were blackened. Thomas was accused of being drunk and disorderly at the Crown hotel.
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Victorian St Nicholas Street: Weymouth
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…
VICTORIAN TALES FROM WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND 