Below is a list of upcoming SDFHS events.
Margot Choo: From Gott’s Corner to Tinsel Town
The fascinating story of one of Sturminster Newton schoolmaster’s family.
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.
Note later start
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Otherwise, do contact her ([email protected]) quoting your membership number. We will then add you to our list.
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General meeting
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