Blogs about: Wimborne Minster
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A schoolboy at Wimborne Minster
Keith Eldred describes what Sunday morning service was like for a young boy in the 1880s and 1890s Read the article in DorsetLife… more →
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Tulips
Brian Tompkins wrote 7 months ago: Picture by Ashley Gunter Spring has truly arrived at Kingston Lacy House near Wimborne Minster as th … more →
The Home Front in Wimborne
Brian Tompkins wrote 10 months ago: The recollections of some of those who lived through the war in Wimborne and the surrounding area ha … more →
And it's over
Ashley wrote 11 months ago: Well – I did it! I survived my first Christmas away from home in almost a quarter century. And … more →
Chained Library
Brian Tompkins wrote 1 year ago: Picture by John Wesley Barker The Library at Wimborne Minster was founded in 1686 and is the second … more →
Playground
Brian Tompkins wrote 1 year ago: Playground by Jodi Crisp Another strange Dorset animal spotted on Honeybrook Farm, a Victorian Farm … more →
Wimborne Model Town
Brian Tompkins wrote 1 year ago: Wimborne Model Town by that_james Wimborne Model Town is situated on the edge of the town of Wimborn … more →
A British 'Saving Private Ryan'
Brian Tompkins wrote 1 year ago: If ‘Saving Private Ryan’ were a British World War II film then it could easily have been … more →
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
Brian Tompkins wrote 1 year ago: Poet and Diplomat, Matthew Prior was born on July 21, 1664 in the vicinity of Wimborne Minster, Dors … more →
Wimborne Minster, Dorset (1911)
Brian Tompkins wrote 1 year ago: The following description of the town Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England is taken from the 1911 ed … more →
Knowlton Church
Brian Tompkins wrote 1 year ago: The ruin of a 14th Century church in the centre of a pagan earth circle, built in the Bronze Age, ma … more →
The Man who may have been Jack the Ripper
Brian Tompkins wrote 1 year ago: On the ground by the side of one of the two chapels in Wimborne Minster Cemetery is the simple grave … more →
William George Hawtry Bankes V.C. (1835-1858)
Brian Tompkins wrote 1 year ago: William George Hawtry Bankes was was born on the 11 September 1836, the fifth child of George Banke … more →
Wimborne Minster, Dorset 1831
Brian Tompkins wrote 2 years ago: A Description of the town of Wimborne MinsterPoole, Dorset, England as described by Samuel Lewis in … more →
