Dorset Life

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• Wimborne’s Minster explored
  April ’13
• A Dorset Life for me
  April ’13
• Clive Hannay – Trent
  April ’13
• Down my way: The Roman aqueduct at Dorchester
  April ’13
• The Dorset Walk: Woodlands, Horton Tower and Chalbury
  April ’13
• Man of Poole – Bernard Dyer
  April ’13
• A minute of intense devastation – Bournemouth’s bloodiest air raid
  April ’13
• Robert Boyle of Stalbridge Park
  April ’13
• A monster of an idea – The Gruffalo Trail
  April ’13
• Spring in Dorset
  April ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the barn owl
  April ’13
• Neither Thelwell nor Mallory Towers
  April ’13
• The wild world on display – Arne
  April ’13
• In the footsteps of Treves – Beaminster and Mapperton
  March ’13
• Dorset lives: Kirill Karabits
  March ’13
• Curiosities of Lyme Regis
  March ’13
• Glass of Haig
  March ’13
• Dorset Gardens: Pyes Plot, Netherbury
  March ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – March
  March ’13
• Dorset’s four-winged predators
  March ’13
• Mummies and Teddies – Dorchester’s museums
  March ’13
• Treasures of Dorset: Corfe Castle
  March ’13
• Verwood then and now
  March ’13
• Jess of the dairy fields
  March ’13
• The Dorset Walk: Tolpuddle, Briantspuddle and Turners Puddle
  March ’13
• Flour of Dorset – Stoate’s flour
  March ’13
• Nesta of the forest: Bournemouth’s witch
  March ’13
• A lot o’ pottery
  February ’13
• A Dorset life for me
  February ’13
• The Geology of Dorset: the Quaternary period
  February ’13
• Down my way: Charlton Marshall Halt
  February ’13
• The one-hit wonder of ‘Wareham’ – William Knapp
  February ’13
• A life in music – Em Marshall-Luck
  February ’13
• Dorset thatch
  February ’13
• Dorset and the English Crown – 1066 to 1688
  February ’13
• A workhouse incident – Cerne Abbas
  February ’13
• Swinging Bournemouth
  February ’13
• Ferndown’s lasting legacy – the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation
  February ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Hazel catkins
  February ’13
• Rivers, streams and lakes – flora and fauna in Dorset’s rivers
  February ’13
• Dorset’s winter wildlife
  January ’13
• A life less ordinary
  January ’13
• The Great Gale of 1824
  January ’13
• Jess of the dairy fields
  January ’13
• Not your usual MP
  January ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the starling
  January ’13
• The battle of Blandford
  January ’13
• Chettle: a photo essay
  January ’13
• The Swanage Hospital debate
  January ’13
• The bells of St Mary’s
  January ’13
• The Dorset drive: Valleys, hills and views
  January ’13
• Lingua franca
  January ’13
• What’s the beef?
  January ’13
• Poole’s incredible hulks
  December ’12
• A falconer’s tale
  December ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the Woodmouse
  December ’12
• ‘Like a beast at bay’: Marie Curie’s secret stay in Highcliffe
  December ’12
• From ‘primitive’ beginnings
  December ’12
• Twelve months in North Dorset
  December ’12
• Weymouth’s Wilberforce
  December ’12
• A Dorset life for me
  December ’12
• Giving Dorset: Lifetime partnerships
  December ’12
• The Geology Of Dorset: The Palaeogene rocks
  December ’12
• A taste of Dorset: a Naga saga
  December ’12
• The beautiful game in God’s own county
  December ’12
• Charmouth’s camera
  November ’12
• In the footsteps of Treves – Cerne Abbas
  November ’12
• Don’t worry, we can mend her – Ellie’s Doll Workshop
  November ’12
• Thatching – an old skill in a new world – Dave Symonds
  November ’12
• Jess of the dairy fields
  November ’12
• ‘so nobly sacrificed their lives’: Dorchester war memorials
  November ’12
• The Dorset Walk – Hod and Hambledon
  November ’12
• In the year 2027 – Lyme Regis’s twenty-year plan
  November ’12
• Dorset’s Autumn Mists
  November ’12
• Dorset’s wild woodlands
  November ’12
• Let there be Leet – Wareham’s Court Leet
  November ’12
• ‘All that remains’ – Christchurch’s blue plaques
  November ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – redwing
  November ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – badger
  October ’12
• Twinning comes of age: Ferndown and Segré
  October ’12
• Horse power: Tony Munt, carriage driver
  October ’12
• Danger UXB – Portland’s World War 2 UneXploded Bomb
  October ’12
• The Saxon kings in Dorset – Dorset’s royal Wessex dynasty
  October ’12
• Best, Crabb and Tucker: Beaminster’s schools
  October ’12
• Bourton and Chaffeymoor: Booton Foot trails
  October ’12
• Dorset Walk: Dorchester’s river
  October ’12
• The Broadstone Music Series
  October ’12
• Yeoman Service: Royal Wessex Yeomanry
  October ’12
• Eype – a photo essay
  October ’12
• More than the sum of its parts: mosaicist Robert Field
  October ’12
• Dorset Granaries Photo Essay
  September ’12
• Gardens: The Old Smithy, Ibberton
  September ’12
• Forum for the future: Blandford’s DT11 Forum
  September ’12
• Witchampton: Short walk with Clive Hannay
  September ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – porcelain fungus
  September ’12
• Geology of Dorset: The Cretaceous rocks
  September ’12
• Danger UXO (UneXploded Ordnance)
  September ’12
• The old order changes: Wareham’s school upheaval
  September ’12
• On a Wing and a Prayer: Felicity Irwin
  September ’12
• Viva Iford: Bournemouth’s radical Russian printers
  September ’12
• Booton Foot Trails: Evershot and Melbury Park
  September ’12
• Dorset Walk: Mosterton, South Perrott and Chedington
  September ’12
• Jess of the dairy fields
  September ’12
• Shaftesbury: in the footsteps of Treves
  August ’12
• ‘That’s the way to do it!’ Punch and Judy Professor Mark Paulton
  August ’12
• Melplash: a ‘specially special’ show
  August ’12
• Dorset’s Habitats – wild heathlands
  August ’12
• Booton Foot Trails – Peter Booton in Owermoigne
  August ’12
• Sturminster Newton: anything but a new town
  August ’12
• All the fun of the care: St John Ambulance at the GDSF
  August ’12
• Tanks! You’re Welcome: Bovington Tank Museum
  August ’12
• Eyes along the coast – National Coastwatch Institution
  August ’12
• Roger Guttridge – A Dorset Life For Me
  August ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Wasp Spider
  August ’12
• What the Sandbanks milkman saw: Tony O’Hara
  August ’12
• Dorset Walk – Studland, Ballard Down and Old Harry
  August ’12
• The Dorset Walk: Shipton Gorge, Burton Bradstock and Cogden Beach
  August ’12
• Kingston Lacy – Books do furnish a room
  July ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Young fox cub
  July ’12
• Dorset Gardens: ‘Ola’, Old Castle Road, Weymouth
  July ’12
• Jess of the Dairyfields – Jessica Miller A Dorset dairy farmer’s wife
  July ’12
• Iwerne Minster – the Titanic connection
  July ’12
• The young man and the sea – A Swanage skipper’s life
  July ’12
• Clive Hannay – view from a Dorset Artist
  July ’12
• Ashmore – a photo essay
  July ’12
• St Mark’s School, Talbot Woods – 150th anniversary
  July ’12
• Booton Foot Trails – Peter Booton in Symondsbury
  July ’12
• Dorset’s Bird Whisperer – Les Rowland
  July ’12
• Shaftesbury Abbey’s Ancient Psalter
  June ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – June: Mullein moth caterpillar
  June ’12
• A Dorset Life for Me by Roger Guttridge
  June ’12
• Sturminster Newton – The Dorset Walk
  June ’12
• ‘Simply just wizard, what?’. Antonia Forest and Percy Westerman
  June ’12
• Dovecotes of Dorset
  June ’12
• A musical Theme: Dorset Lives, Stephen Warbeck
  June ’12
• Clive Hannay paints Ansty
  June ’12
• TS Royalist Passing St Aldhelm’s Head
  June ’12
• Lytchett Matravers – Booton Foot Trails
  June ’12
• Weymouth Holy Trinity Environmental Garden
  June ’12
• Diamond Jubilee then and now
  June ’12
• Blandford: 235 years of Messrs Hall and Woodhouse
  June ’12
• Bradford Abbas and Ryme Intrinseca
  May ’12
• Cerne Abbas: when the village was sold at auction
  May ’12
• Dorset Lives: Poole Pirates owner Matt Ford
  May ’12
• From ancient to modern: Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
  May ’12
• Christchurch’s MTBs: What happened to the wartime craft
  May ’12
• Fra H Newbery: an artist in Purbeck
  May ’12
• Booton Foot Trails: Chideock, Golden Cap and Seatown
  May ’12
• In the footsteps of Treves: the Winterbornes
  May ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – May: Songthrushes
  May ’12
• Dorset Garden: 54 Lonnen Road, Colehill
  May ’12
• Dorset Habitats: Chalk downlands
  May ’12
• Sturminster Newton and the Pitt-Rivers family
  April ’12
• The cream of Dorset
  April ’12
• The Dorset Walk: Portland quarries and coasts
  April ’12
• The heart of art
  April ’12
• Rescuing Dorset’s literature
  April ’12
• ‘…a most obnoxious place’
  April ’12
• Melbury Hill, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Down
  April ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – April
  April ’12
• Oborne: a photo essay
  April ’12
• Making scents of Dorset
  April ’12
• Cider’s Poole
  April ’12
• Pilsdon Manor and Community
  April ’12
• A potted history of Verwood
  March ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – March
  March ’12
• Dorset Lives: ‘If you can speak you can sing’
  March ’12
• Dorset Garden: Knowle Farm, Uploders
  March ’12
• Dorset from the sea
  March ’12
• Cordite, clay and calluna
  March ’12
• ‘A spot of faint interest…’
  March ’12
• The Old Stone Wall at Stalbridge
  March ’12
• The Geology Of Dorset: The Jurassic rocks
  March ’12
• Shillingstone
  March ’12
• Haring around the Cerne Valley
  March ’12
• The Dorset Walk: Oakley Down, Pentridge Knoll and Bokerley Dyke
  March ’12
• Fate of clay
  February ’12
• A life in three acts
  February ’12
• Not as black as he’s painted
  February ’12
• On the buses
  February ’12
• ‘Cold enough to kill the Devil’
  February ’12
• ‘Start by doing what is necessary…’
  February ’12
• A unique place to live
  February ’12
• Wheel of misfortune
  February ’12
• Thought for food
  February ’12
• Near Golden Cap
  February ’12
• Dorset’s habitats: the coast
  February ’12
• Inside a Victorian rectory
  January ’12
• An island waits
  January ’12
• Centuries of care
  January ’12
• Great expectations
  January ’12
• If you go out in the woods today…
  January ’12
• Lulworth, Camera, Action!
  January ’12
• Puncknowle – a photographic essay
  January ’12
• A day in the life of Bournemouth Airport
  January ’12
• Giving Dorset – sign of a happy dog
  January ’12
• A taste of Dorset – Rich tea heritage
  December ’11
• Bidding for success
  December ’11
• The bridges of Weymouth
  December ’11
• An island life for me
  December ’11
• The land on which we live – The Geology of Dorset
  December ’11
• Charlie Mills refuses to be caned
  December ’11
• East Holme
  December ’11
• Dorset in Winter
  December ’11
• Orlando’s bloom
  November ’11
• From Shaftesbury towards Stalbridge
  November ’11
• Knight or knave?
  November ’11
• Grocer, diplomat, chieftan, pacifist
  November ’11
• Dorset Lives – A new leaf
  November ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Woolland, Belchalwell and Ibberton
  November ’11
• Dorset from the sea – Double discovery
  November ’11
• Return of a native
  November ’11
• The Curse of Frampton
  November ’11
• Blandford’s crowning glory
  November ’11
• David Noton’s Dorset
  November ’11
• Diary of a Dorset farmer’s wife
  November ’11
• From Trickett’s Cross to Heatherlands
  October ’11
• The Owld White Harse Wants Zetting to Rights
  October ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Corfe Castle and Common
  October ’11
• Tolpuddle – a photographic essay
  October ’11
• Tales of rope and beer
  October ’11
• Legging it in Dorset – Ashmore and Stubhampton
  October ’11
• The Daniels of Beaminster
  October ’11
• Hedging his bets
  October ’11
• From dereliction to destination
  October ’11
• Lyn and Malcolm’s Ferndown garden
  September ’11
• Mapping Dorset
  September ’11
• Button-up tunic, stiff boots, Wareham
  September ’11
• Rodney Legg (1947-2011) and Dorset Life
  September ’11
• Say 'cheese': it's festival time!
  September ’11
• Say ‘cheese’: it’s festival time!
  September ’11
• Alfred Palmer
  September ’11
• They loved it, yeah, yeah, yeah
  September ’11
• 'So considerable an object…'
  August ’11
• ‘So considerable an object…’
  August ’11
• Dorset’s redundant churches
  August ’11
• Leaves from a Dorset diary
  August ’11
• Continuing the tradition
  August ’11
• Dorset Houses – A burning question
  August ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Maiden Castle and Martinstown
  August ’11
• In the Footsteps of Treves, The Isle of Purbeck – Corfe Castle
  August ’11
• Giving Dorset – Not looking but searching
  August ’11
• What do you get if you cross…?
  August ’11
• Legging it in Dorset – Sutton Poyntz and Bincombe
  August ’11
• Dorset Lives – Stock pictures
  August ’11
• A bitter-sweet remembrance
  July ’11
• Back in the Doggett’s home
  July ’11
• Dorset Garden -Manor House, Lower Blandford St Mary
  July ’11
• After the Games have gone
  July ’11
• Tarrant Monkton – A photographic essay
  July ’11
• The face of Dorset – Rural East Dorset
  July ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Netherbury, Stoke Abbott and the Brit Valley Way
  July ’11
• ‘So you want to learn to sail?’
  July ’11
• Message… and a bottle
  July ’11
• Shaftesbury’s medical history
  June ’11
• Dorset’s hidden wonder
  June ’11
• Dorset Houses – The lost mansion
  June ’11
• Dorset Lives – His own man
  June ’11
• Friends indeed
  June ’11
• Whitcombe
  June ’11
• Leaves from a Dorset diary
  June ’11
• A Day in the Life of… Dorchester CAB
  June ’11
• Legging it in Dorset – Trent and Nether Compton
  June ’11
• The Dorset Walk – From Burton Green
  June ’11
• Where to watch birds in Dorset
  May ’11
• Weymouth’s donkeys
  May ’11
• Legging it in Dorset – Winterborne Stickland and Clenston
  May ’11
• The town camp races
  May ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Portesham, Abbotsbury and the Hellstone
  May ’11
• In the Footsteps of Treves – The North-East Outpost…
  May ’11
• Giving Dorset – ‘All his soul with music offered’
  May ’11
• Manor House, Beaminster
  May ’11
• Dorset Lives
  May ’11
• 1400 years of history?
  May ’11
• The Dorset walk – Chetnole and Leigh
  April ’11
• Dorset lives – A ‘rather tall’ man
  April ’11
• All the world’s a stage
  April ’11
• Maiden Newton in pictures
  April ’11
• Until the cows came home
  April ’11
• The Dorset ride
  April ’11
• Athelhampton House
  April ’11
• Once a folly, now a Jurassic jewel
  April ’11
• When the world was ruled from Dorset
  April ’11
• Dorset Sweet and Sour
  April ’11
• Heron’s Mead, East Burton
  March ’11
• Hardy and Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  March ’11
• ‘You can’t run it just as a business’
  March ’11
• A taste of Dorset – Oyster source
  March ’11
• Realm of the piers
  March ’11
• Dorset lives – A test of metal
  March ’11
• The Dorset walk – Green spaces and quiet roads
  March ’11
• Plants that eat insects!
  March ’11
• Purse Caundle
  March ’11
• Fertile ground- Gillingham Primary School
  March ’11
• Wimborne St Giles
  February ’11
• Corfu’s Dorset connections
  February ’11
• Giving Dorset – ‘Call My Bluff’ – with a Dorset twist
  February ’11
• Downes and outs
  February ’11
• The Archbishop of Blandford
  February ’11
• Something in the air
  February ’11
• In the Footsteps of Treves – Marshwood Vale and the West Border
  February ’11
• Dorset lives – From music to art, from dark to light
  February ’11
• Seeing beyond the prison uniform
  February ’11
• Dorset in winter
  February ’11
• The beating heart
  January ’11
• Dorset – a bird’s eye view, Eastbury House
  January ’11
• ‘We do wash sometimes’
  January ’11
• The joy of the new
  January ’11
• Dorset Lives – The Polymoth
  January ’11
• Three cheers for Sawbridge Drax
  January ’11
• ‘The temporary requirements of mere fashion’
  January ’11
• Poundbury is home
  January ’11
• The phoenix of Christchurch
  January ’11
• Kingston
  January ’11
• Charting Poole Harbour
  December ’10
• A nobler sense of duty
  December ’10
• Curiosities of Wimborne
  December ’10
• Dorset lives – In the public service
  December ’10
• Hardy and The Trumpet Major
  December ’10
• The Loss of the Halsewell
  December ’10
• Taste of Dorset – Vinny, vidi, vici
  December ’10
• ‘Whitehead is a scamp.’
  December ’10
• Chalbury
  December ’10
• And the night shall be filled with music
  December ’10
• In the shadow of the Chase
  November ’10
• The Dorset walk – Plush and Lyscombe
  November ’10
• In the footsteps of Treves – Hilton and Bingham’s Melcombe
  November ’10
• On the way back
  November ’10
• ‘A tunnel wide’
  November ’10
• Captain Swing was here!
  November ’10
• Dorset lives – Chipping away
  November ’10
• Norburton Hall
  November ’10
• THE FACE OF DORSET – ‘That special part of Dorset’
  November ’10
• Christmas shopping in Dorchester
  November ’10
• Ferndown then and now
  October ’10
• Farm favourites
  October ’10
• The valley of the deer
  October ’10
• Burton Bradstock
  October ’10
• Legging it in Dorset
  October ’10
• Barnes in Love
  October ’10
• Beauty and brawn
  October ’10
• Dorset lives – Making the collections work harder
  October ’10
• Wet and wild in Weymouth
  October ’10
• The Dorset walk – Cranborne
  October ’10
• Part of the Madding Crowd
  October ’10
• For the health of the community
  September ’10
• We have him
  September ’10
• Marshwood
  September ’10
• The Dairy House, Melbury Osmund
  September ’10
• Et in Arcadia ego
  September ’10
• A taste of Dorset – Baking for a century
  September ’10
• A wartime childhood in Swanage
  September ’10
• The missing millions
  September ’10
• Keeping the sea at bay
  August ’10
• A day in the life of Wareham Quay
  August ’10
• Cogden
  August ’10
• In the footsteps of Treves
  August ’10
• From railway to trailway
  August ’10
• Art with a meaning
  August ’10
• Bridport’s arts hub
  August ’10
• Radio Therapy
  July ’10
• A funeral at Tyneham
  July ’10
• When Wimborne went wild
  July ’10
• 150 years on
  July ’10
• Mary Anning and me
  June ’10
• Dorset lives – Seventy years of farming
  June ’10
• Chettle
  June ’10
• Dorset lives — ‘I quite literally enjoy whatever I’m working on!’
  May ’10
• Ages past, years to come
  May ’10
• Dragoons, Yeomanry and Signallers
  May ’10
• ‘Try and remember him!’
  May ’10
• Going forward together
  May ’10
• In the Footsteps of Treves — Wimborne St Giles
  May ’10
• Dorchester’s river
  May ’10
• The River Stour: a photographic essay
  May ’10
• Poole’s wait for a war memorial
  April ’10
• Dorset Lives — Deserving Trust
  April ’10
• Hinton Martell
  April ’10
• The Face of Dorset — The Blackmore Vale
  April ’10
• Six-legged wonders
  April ’10
• The finest parish church in England?
  April ’10
• Giving Dorset — Lost and hound
  April ’10
• War comes to Beaminster
  April ’10
• More memories of a Weymouth cub reporter
  March ’10
• Dorset lives — Art of oak
  March ’10
• Pampering pigs
  March ’10
• ‘Doing your own thing’
  March ’10
• Steeple
  March ’10
• The beginnings of Bournemouth
  March ’10
• Colonial leftovers
  March ’10
• Following in Roman footsteps
  March ’10
• Dorset – a bird’s eye view
  March ’10
• Palmy skies
  March ’10
• Maiden Castle to Penbury Knoll
  February ’10
• Save Blandford’s church!
  February ’10
• The smuggling churchwarden
  February ’10
• Dorset lives — A glass half-full
  February ’10
• A miscellany of Dorsetshire memorials
  February ’10
• Growing up on Portland in the ’twenties and ’thirties
  February ’10
• Royalty, poets and moss
  February ’10
• The water that is passed
  February ’10
• Wheat over water
  February ’10
• In the footsteps of Treves — Poxwell and Osmington
  February ’10
• Prints of England
  January ’10
• Plough Monday in Dorchester
  January ’10
• Bridehead revisited
  January ’10
• Giving Dorset — ‘To climb as high as they can dream’
  January ’10
• A day in the life of a country rector
  January ’10
• Not worth defending?
  January ’10
• Dorset lives — Model citizen
  January ’10
• ‘Small neat ears and thick silky hair’
  January ’10
• Raising standards and horizons
  January ’10
• The face of Dorset — Cranborne Chase
  December ’09
• Herbaceous gardening at its best
  December ’09
• Pamela Hambro and the lost world of Milton Abbey
  December ’09
• 150 years of the railway in Gillingham
  December ’09
• Bradford Abbas
  December ’09
• Dorset lives — Tuning in
  December ’09
• A Captain Courageous
  December ’09
• A taste of Dorset — Honeybuns
  December ’09
• Theatre of dreams
  December ’09
• A Dorset Christmas
  December ’09
• ‘This wonderful wilderness’
  November ’09
• Tolkien in Bournemouth and Dorset
  November ’09
• In the footsteps of Treves — The Tollers, Wynford Eagle, Rampisham and Evershot
  November ’09
• How do they fit it all in?
  November ’09
• How the mighty atom came to Dorset
  November ’09
• Staying behind
  November ’09
• Taking their toll
  November ’09
• Dorset’s plague port
  November ’09
• Dorset lives — Wootton's woodmen
  November ’09
• Dorset lives — Wootton’s woodmen
  November ’09
• The Dorset walk — Cranborne and Wimborne St Giles
  November ’09
• Dorset at first light
  October ’09
• Moreton
  October ’09
• The face of Dorset — South Dorset
  October ’09
• ‘Costly and beautiful treasures’
  October ’09
• Giving Dorset — Lighten their darkness
  October ’09
• Lilliput’s industrial past
  October ’09
• Editor Extraordinaire – Donald Mildenhall MBE
  October ’09
• The Dorset walk — Winterbornes Clenston, Stickland and Houghton
  October ’09
• Damory of Blandford
  October ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — Cann and Compton Abbas
  October ’09
• Picturing Dorset
  September ’09
• West Morden
  September ’09
• Walking through Dorchester’s history
  September ’09
• The Dorset Walk — Creech, Corfe Castle and Knowle Hill
  September ’09
• A day in the life of the Bournemouth International Centre
  September ’09
• Corscombe House
  September ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — East Chaldon and White Nothe
  September ’09
• Dorset pub stroll — The Charlton Inn
  September ’09
• Bold as brass
  September ’09
• In the Footsteps of Treves — Lyme Regis
  August ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — Kimmeridge to Worbarrow
  August ’09
• The Dorset walk — Chalmington, Chantmarle and Wraxall
  August ’09
• Sherborne then and now
  August ’09
• 'It's like an old-fashioned village now!'
  August ’09
• ‘It’s like an old-fashioned village now!’
  August ’09
• Llama karma
  August ’09
• More to it than a brown loaf
  August ’09
• Parnham House, a family home again
  August ’09
• Dorset pub stroll — The Greyhound Inn
  July ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — Thorncombe and Forde
  July ’09
• Dorset — a bird's eye view — Christchurch Harbour
  July ’09
• Dorset — a bird’s eye view — Christchurch Harbour
  July ’09
• The Dorset Walk — Thornford, Leweston and Lillington
  July ’09
• New work unlocks the secrets of Christchurch's workhouse
  July ’09
• New work unlocks the secrets of Christchurch’s workhouse
  July ’09
• Gillingham in festival mood
  July ’09
• 'A typical Dorset Village'
  July ’09
• ‘A typical Dorset Village’
  July ’09
• Elegance in historic surroundings
  July ’09
• The Priest's House Museum
  July ’09
• The Priest’s House Museum
  July ’09
• Say hello to Old Harry
  July ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — Woods of Cranborne Chase
  June ’09
• The Dorset walk — Beaminster, Netherbury and Stoke Abbott
  June ’09
• Dorset — a bird's eye view — Lulworth Cove
  June ’09
• Dorset — a bird’s eye view — Lulworth Cove
  June ’09
• Wareham's air raid
  June ’09
• Wareham’s air raid
  June ’09
• A taste of Dorset — A pint of piddle, please…
  June ’09
• Giving back to Portland
  June ’09
• Bettiscombe
  June ’09
• Colours of the Dorset Coast
  June ’09
• Legging it in Dorset
  May ’09
• The Dorset walk — Purbeck heath and forest
  May ’09
• A schoolboy at Wimborne Minster
  May ’09
• Stalbridge's historian
  May ’09
• Stalbridge’s historian
  May ’09
• Massacre at Slapton Sands — the great Portland cover-up
  May ’09
• Back to the future
  May ’09
• In the footsteps of Treves — Trent
  May ’09
• The face of Dorset — The hills of West Dorset
  May ’09
• Dorset in spring and early summer
  May ’09
• Sturminster Marshall
  April ’09
• Eating out with Bertie
  April ’09
• Dorset — a bird's eye view
  April ’09
• Dorset — a bird’s eye view
  April ’09
• Defoe in Dorset
  April ’09
• The Dorset Walk — Tarrant Monkton and Manswood
  April ’09
• Christchurch's 'fraught and dangerous business'
  April ’09
• Christchurch’s ‘fraught and dangerous business’
  April ’09
• Saturday Driver
  April ’09
• Inspired To Learn
  April ’09
• An Unforgettable Evening
  April ’09
• 'A Long and Intimate Relationship'
  April ’09
• ‘A Long and Intimate Relationship’
  April ’09
• The Dorset walk — Eype Down and West Bay
  March ’09
• An Uphill Challenge
  March ’09
• Colin Varndell's wildlife diary — March
  March ’09
• Colin Varndell’s wildlife diary — March
  March ’09
• Rolling Out The Barrelhouse
  March ’09
• 'The Lively Old lady'
  March ’09
• ‘The Lively Old lady’
  March ’09
• How Arne Saved Holton Heath
  March ’09
• When Blandford Burnt
  March ’09
• In Another World
  March ’09
• Bradford Peverell
  March ’09
• Curiosities of Dorset Churches
  March ’09
• Poole and Art Deco
  February ’09
• Dorset pub stroll
  February ’09
• From baths to drill hall to cinema to theatre
  February ’09
• The Purbeck 'volcano'
  February ’09
• The Purbeck ‘volcano’
  February ’09
• On the prowl
  February ’09
• Beaminster then and now
  February ’09
• Decay or restoration?
  February ’09
• Dorset — a bird's eye view — The Eastern Purbeck Hills
  February ’09
• Dorset — a bird’s eye view — The Eastern Purbeck Hills
  February ’09
• In the footsteps of Treves — The road to Blandford
  February ’09
• Some Lost Castles Of Dorset
  February ’09
• Dorset pub stroll
  January ’09
• The Dorset Drive — Avon, Allen, Tarrant and Stour
  January ’09
• Tennis for Real in Dorset
  January ’09
• Lady of the Palms and Paddy Fields
  January ’09
• The (almost) Complete Guide
  January ’09
• A Soldier of Dorset
  January ’09
• Osmington
  January ’09
• Riding The Rails
  January ’09
• Dorset's Rivers
  January ’09
• Dorset’s Rivers
  January ’09
• 'The sooner they get on with it, the better'
  December ’08
• ‘The sooner they get on with it, the better’
  December ’08
• Horizontal Apostles
  December ’08
• William Barnes and me
  December ’08
• Eating out with Bertie
  December ’08
• The Clay Boats of Poole
  December ’08
• The Home Front in Wimborne
  December ’08
• A glorious way to spend a Sunday afternoon
  December ’08
• Pimperne
  December ’08
• The Dorset walk — Ashmore, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Magna
  November ’08
• Eating out with Freddie
  November ’08
• A Nation of Shopkeepers
  November ’08
• Libya to Lulworth
  November ’08
• In the footsteps of Treves — The land behind the Chesil Beach
  November ’08
• The Flowers of Dorset's Riversides
  November ’08
• The Flowers of Dorset’s Riversides
  November ’08
• Birds That Kill
  November ’08
• To The Manor Re-born
  November ’08
• True Blue
  November ’08
• The Dorset Walk — Chetnole, Melbury Osmond and Melbury Bubb
  October ’08
• Spellbound In Darkness
  October ’08
• Dorset Pub Stroll
  October ’08
• A Portland Success Story
  October ’08
• Frampton Village
  October ’08
• Sanctuary in Ferndown
  October ’08
• Dorset in Autumn
  October ’08
• "Vile Ministers" and "Poor Silly Creatures"
  October ’08
• “Vile Ministers” and “Poor Silly Creatures”
  October ’08
• A Blandford Institution
  October ’08
• Wealth, a martyr's bones and dissolution
  October ’08
• Wealth, a martyr’s bones and dissolution
  October ’08
• East Creech
  September ’08
• The Dorset walk
  September ’08
• Dorset pub stroll
  September ’08
• Eating Out with Freddie
  September ’08
• Telling The Story Of Gillingham
  September ’08
• A Dorset Love Story
  September ’08
• With the ATS in Weymouth
  September ’08
• Down to the hollow
  September ’08
• Dorset's rivers — The Stour: Blandford to Wimborne
  September ’08
• Dorset’s rivers — The Stour: Blandford to Wimborne
  September ’08
• Verwood then and now
  August ’08
• West Bay
  August ’08
• Inn With Freddie — The Anchor
  August ’08
• Legging It In Dorset — Compton Valence
  August ’08
• Planes For All To See
  August ’08
• Unsung Hero
  August ’08
• The Hope Is Great
  August ’08
• In the footsteps of Treves — Studland
  August ’08
• 'The wonders of my garden'
  August ’08
• ‘The wonders of my garden’
  August ’08
• Milton Abbas
  July ’08
• Down to the sea in ships
  July ’08
• Inn with Freddie — The King's Arms
  July ’08
• Inn with Freddie — The King’s Arms
  July ’08
• Eating out with Bertie — Rajasthan Restaurant
  July ’08
• Legging it in Dorset — Portland
  July ’08
• Bournemouth's flying circuses
  July ’08
• Bournemouth’s flying circuses
  July ’08
• The Dorset Walk — Puncknowle and West Bexington
  July ’08
• All change?
  July ’08
• A bird's eye view — The Dorset coast from Gad Cliff to White Nothe
  July ’08
• A bird’s eye view — The Dorset coast from Gad Cliff to White Nothe
  July ’08
• Shaftesbury and the High House Press
  July ’08
• Small but perfectly formed
  July ’08
• Eating out with Freddie — The Old Granary
  June ’08
• Legging it in Dorset — Pentridge and Martin Down
  June ’08
• Roads to the Isle
  June ’08
• The Dorset walk — Cheselbourne and Bingham's Melcombe
  June ’08
• The Dorset walk — Cheselbourne and Bingham’s Melcombe
  June ’08
• A happy band
  June ’08
• A chequered history but a secure future?
  June ’08
• Piddlehinton
  June ’08
• Fiddleford Mill and Girdler's Coppice
  June ’08
• Fiddleford Mill and Girdler’s Coppice
  June ’08
• Legging it in Dorset — Netherbury and Oxbridge
  May ’08
• Stranger than we can imagine
  May ’08
• 'Leave not a rack behind'
  May ’08
• ‘Leave not a rack behind’
  May ’08
• The Dorset walk — Durlston, Swanage and Ballard Down
  May ’08
• Snakes alive
  May ’08
• A boyhood in Sturminster Newton
  May ’08
• Dorset's rivers — The Stour, Sturminster Newton to Blandford
  May ’08
• Dorset’s rivers — The Stour, Sturminster Newton to Blandford
  May ’08
• Inn with Freddie — The Angel Inn
  April ’08
• Eating Out with Freddie — Corkers Restaurant
  April ’08
• Legging it in Dorset — Silton and Huntingford
  April ’08
• Bagpipes, bears and bands
  April ’08
• Edwardian bathing — with swearing
  April ’08
• The Dorset walk — Coombe Heath and Highwood
  April ’08
• Purbeck's country park
  April ’08
• Purbeck’s country park
  April ’08
• The Dam Buster in Dorset
  April ’08
• King Alfred's legacy to Wareham
  April ’08
• King Alfred’s legacy to Wareham
  April ’08
• One hundred acres
  April ’08
• On the country house trail
  March ’08
• Eating Out with Freddie — The Langton Arms
  March ’08
• The Dorset walk — Bettiscombe and Pilsdon
  March ’08
• Traditional perfection
  March ’08
• A cub reporter in Weymouth
  March ’08
• The fall of the House of Stalbridge
  March ’08
• Farnham
  March ’08
• The man behind Bridport's railway
  March ’08
• The man behind Bridport’s railway
  March ’08
• The Bond family at Creech Grange
  March ’08
• 'Worth being sick for'
  March ’08
• ‘Worth being sick for’
  March ’08
• Boarding in Beaminster
  February ’08
• Mrs Frampton's bustle
  February ’08
• Mrs Frampton’s bustle
  February ’08
• The Other Siege of Corfe Castle
  February ’08
• Bailey Bridges
  February ’08
• 'Dorset at its best'
  January ’08
• ‘Dorset at its best’
  January ’08
• Inn with Freddie — Drusilla's Inn
  January ’08
• Inn with Freddie — Drusilla’s Inn
  January ’08
• Dorset's first Labour MP
  January ’08
• Dorset’s first Labour MP
  January ’08
• The Dorset drive — The far west
  January ’08
• Which one would you choose?
  January ’08
• The blizzard that buried Dorset
  January ’08
• Ferndown Zoo
  January ’08
• The Stour: Stourhead to Sturminster Newton
  January ’08
• Inn with Freddie — The Fiddleford Inn
  December ’07
• Milestones — 'How far is it to…?'
  December ’07
• Milestones — ‘How far is it to…?’
  December ’07
• Dorchester — The county town at war
  December ’07
• Lawrence facts, fantasy and films
  December ’07
• Christmas at Wimborne Minster
  December ’07
• Askerswell village
  December ’07
• From farmyard into garden — Broomhill at Rampisham
  December ’07
• Inn with Freddie — The West Bay
  November ’07
• The Dorset walk — Lydlinch and Stock Gaylard
  November ’07
• Murder most foul
  November ’07
• Cut Mill
  November ’07
• Not so sleepy Chideock
  November ’07
• The charge at El Mughar
  November ’07
• In the footsteps of Treves — West Dorset
  November ’07
• Rushing on the River Stour
  November ’07
• Purbeck landscapes
  November ’07
• Wealth, a martyr's bones and dissolution
  October ’07
• Wealth, a martyr’s bones and dissolution
  October ’07
• The Dorset Walk — Ackling Dyke and the Dorset Cursus
  October ’07
• Eating out with Freddie — Gilbey's Restaurant
  October ’07
• Eating out with Freddie — Gilbey’s Restaurant
  October ’07
• Legging it in Dorset — Halstock and Sutton Bingham
  October ’07
• Melbury Osmond
  October ’07
• 'Rejoice and Do Well'
  October ’07
• ‘Rejoice and Do Well’
  October ’07
• Dorset's lesser-known parish churches
  October ’07
• Dorset’s lesser-known parish churches
  October ’07
• Bygone Bridport
  October ’07
• A lost mansion of Dorset
  October ’07
• 'No ordinary garden'
  September ’07
• ‘No ordinary garden’
  September ’07
• Eating out with Freddie — The Crab House Café
  September ’07
• Keeping the old skills alive
  September ’07
• The Dorset walk — Hardy Country
  September ’07
• Dorset's rivers
  September ’07
• Dorset’s rivers
  September ’07
• Dorset's last line of defence
  September ’07
• Dorset’s last line of defence
  September ’07
• Cerne Abbas
  September ’07
• A night at the Opera House
  September ’07
• Inn with Freddie
  July ’07
• When Wimborne could have burnt
  July ’07
• Wareham Forest and Bloxworth
  July ’07
• Legging it in Dorset — Studland and Old Harry
  July ’07
• Isaac Gulliver — the Ferndown connection
  July ’07
• One hundred years of Arts and Crafts in Dorset
  July ’07
• Abbotsbury
  July ’07
• Dorset's rivers — The River Frome from Evershot to Dorchester
  May ’07
• Dorset’s rivers — The River Frome from Evershot to Dorchester
  May ’07
• Around Milton on Stour
  May ’07
• A Dorchester schoolboy a hundred years ago
  May ’07
• Eating out with Freddie
  May ’07
• Dorset — a bird's eye view — Canford School from the south
  May ’07
• Dorset — a bird’s eye view — Canford School from the south
  May ’07
• Children of the light
  May ’07
• In the footsteps of Treves — Between Hambledon and Bulbarrow
  May ’07
• The oldest inn in Dorset
  May ’07
• The Dorset walk — Behind the Fleet
  May ’07
• Bridport's Electric Palace
  April ’07
• Bridport’s Electric Palace
  April ’07
• Gribble treasures revealed
  April ’07
• The Marshwood Vale — through the lens
  April ’07
• Bridging the gap
  April ’07
• The Dorset walk — Wimborne St Giles, Monkton Up Wimborne and Gussage All Saints
  April ’07
• Winfrith Newburgh
  April ’07
• 'Portly and strong'
  April ’07
• ‘Portly and strong’
  April ’07
• Eating out with Freddie
  March ’07
• Hammoon House
  March ’07
• 'A Mediterranean lounging place'
  March ’07
• ‘A Mediterranean lounging place’
  March ’07
• Eating Out with Freddie
  March ’07
• Wynford Eagle and the Tollers
  March ’07
• East Dorset
  March ’07
• Serles House, Wimborne Minster
  March ’07
• Langton Matravers
  March ’07
• In the footsteps of Treves — West Lulworth and Lulworth Cove
  February ’07
• Photographing listed Dorset
  February ’07
• Eating out with Freddie
  February ’07
• Going shopping in Beaminster a hundred years ago
  February ’07
• Stalbridge before the National Health Service
  February ’07
• Shaftesbury and the Grosvenors
  February ’07
• Portland re-captured
  February ’07
• Purbeck's clay railways
  January ’07
• Purbeck’s clay railways
  January ’07
• The invasion that wasn't
  January ’07
• The invasion that wasn’t
  January ’07
• Eating out with Freddie
  January ’07
• Dorset thoughts from abroad
  January ’07
• Historic port and seaside resort
  January ’07
• 'Mr Swanage'
  January ’07
• ‘Mr Swanage’
  January ’07
• Dorset's little rivers — The Lydden and the Caundle Brook
  January ’07
• Dorset’s little rivers — The Lydden and the Caundle Brook
  January ’07
• The Dorset drive — Up hill and down dale
  January ’07
• Through the heart of Wessex
  December ’06
• Natural gifts
  December ’06
• Kington Magna
  December ’06
• Christmas with William Barnes — Grammer's Shoes
  December ’06
• Christmas with William Barnes — Grammer’s Shoes
  December ’06
• Christmas with William Barnes — Keepen Up O'Christmas
  December ’06
• Christmas with William Barnes — Keepen Up O’Christmas
  December ’06
• Christmas with William Barnes — Christmas invitation
  December ’06
• Icons at Athelhampton
  December ’06
• Turnpikes, tolls and tunnels
  November ’06
• The Dorset walk — And now for something completely different
  November ’06
• Bicycles to BMWs
  November ’06
• Dorset Lives — A sort of magic
  November ’06
• Christchurch's St Catherine's Hill
  November ’06
• Christchurch’s St Catherine’s Hill
  November ’06
• A history of Bridport hospitality
  November ’06
• By Royal appointment
  October ’06
• Wimborne has their bones
  October ’06
• The Dorset Walk — The Piddle and Cerne Valleys
  October ’06
• A childhood dream come true
  October ’06
• Sylvester Jourdan of Lyme Regis
  October ’06
• The Dorset Walk — Hilton, the Dorsetshire Gap and Rawlsbury Camp
  September ’06
• Dorset's little rivers — The Crane (Moors River)
  September ’06
• Dorset’s little rivers — The Crane (Moors River)
  September ’06
• Dorset lives
  September ’06
• Puddletown
  September ’06
• A hidden architectural treasure
  September ’06
• 'I'm there every day'
  September ’06
• ‘I’m there every day’
  September ’06
• Discovering lost Dorset's recreations
  August ’06
• Discovering lost Dorset’s recreations
  August ’06
• Bournemouth's most sensational murder
  August ’06
• Bournemouth’s most sensational murder
  August ’06
• Poole and the birth of the chemical industry
  August ’06
• Dorset pub stroll — The Coppleridge Inn
  August ’06
• The Dorset walk — The Purbeck valley, Langton Matravers and Nine Barrow Down
  August ’06
• Dorchester in the 1960s
  August ’06
• South Dorset
  August ’06