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Somerset & Dorset
Family History Society
Family History Society
Below is a list of upcoming SDFHS events.
‘A Teenage View of Wartime Weymouth’ by Lyndsey Fry
Chris Cooper “Kings Head Hotel Wimborne”
Dorchester – Small Town, Big Story’ (Part 2) by Alistair Chisholm
Raymond Arnold Wills “Gypsies”
In Thomas Hardy’s novel, The Woodlanders (1887), he describes the local landscape of North Dorset as filled with orchards and the smell of apples. An iconic image depicts the hero, Giles
Winterborne, standing with his specimen apple tree in the midst of the town of Sherborne. Elisabeth explores the little-known history of cider-making in the local area, using her own research and oral histories she has collected from residents of several villages.
Speaker: Elisabeth Bletsoe