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Somerset & Dorset
Family History Society

Events

Below is a list of upcoming SDFHS events.

From Gott’s Corner to Tinsel Town

Date: 21st May 2025
Time: 19:30
Location: The Bow Room of The Exchange, Sturminster Newton
Blackmore Vale Group
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Margot Choo: From Gott’s Corner to Tinsel Town

The fascinating story of one of Sturminster Newton schoolmaster’s family.

HOUSE HISTORY by GILL BLANCHARD

Date: 23rd May 2025
Time: 17:00
Location: Zoom
Online | West Dorset Group

Now’s your chance to hear Gill Blanchard talk about house history and how to go about your own research. Gill is a hugely experienced and qualified researcher, historian and published author on local, house and family history and we’re very pleased to welcome her to our Society to speak.

Discover the main resources to trace the history of your own home and where your ancestors lived with leading UK house historian and the author of ‘Tracing Your House History’ (Pen and Sword Books). Find out which sources to use to place a building in time and place, uncover who lived in it, what else it was used for and when it was built.

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If you’ve already emailed Jane in order to attend a zoom meeting, you won’t need to contact us again. We build up a list of subscribers & send out the zoom details, shortly before the meeting.

Otherwise, do contact her ([email protected]) quoting your membership number. We will then add you to our list.

Brought to you by the West Dorset Group on behalf of S&D FHS

General Meeting

Date: 26th May 2025
Time: 19:00
Location: The Phoenix Centre, 5 Harbour Road, Watchet TA23 0AQ
West Somerset Group

General meeting

Downe through the ages: Downe Hall and Bridport 1770 to 1944

Date: 14th June 2025
Time: 14:00
Location: Loders Village Hall
West Dorset Group

Tim Gale will be speaking on Downe Hall and its place in Bridport’s history. Tim is a local landscape architect and urban designer. The Hall, on Coneygar Hill, is intertwined with Bridport’s rope and net history and amongst its owners and occupants were rope and twine merchants, lawyers and the Commander of the Hanoverian Army.

All welcome, members £2, visitors £4.

Dorset Heroines by David Beaton

Date: 16th June 2025
Time: 19:30
Location: The Hilda Coles Learning Centre off Crown Mead, Wimborne
East Dorset Group

Dorset Heroines by David Beaton