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Dorset Index
Photographs
  • Some Portland Photos - Churches - Buildings - Views - today - along with some notes on some of the buildings and people who used them.
  • A few Wyke Regis Photos - Churches - Poor House, Weymouth - Buildings - Views - today
  • Some West Dorset holiday snaps - Black and White - 1920s and 1930s


  • Miscellaneous items of Dorset Interest
  • The Dorset Census and what is available and where
  • Regiments at the Verne Citadel, Portland, Dorset 1873-1933
  • Some Portland MIs and Burials
  • Dorset Genealogy Links
  • A few Hatches, Matches, Despatches and Wills and Admons etc for West Dorset
  • 19th Century Dorset Agriculture
  • William Barnes Poetry plus some Kipling etc
  • Broadwindsor - An Analysis of Baptisms 1732-1879
  • Details of Towns and Villages that have been moved in and out of Dorset to and from adjacent counties
  • Vessels Built in Dorset for the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars etc


  • Some Shipwrecks and Sinkings with a Dorset connection
  • The Loss of the Catherine, Venus, Piedmont, Thomas, Golden Grove and Æolus on the Chesil Beach, Dorset: an account from 1796
  • Avalanche and Forrest were in collision in the English Channel in 1877 off Portland, Dorset
  • Earl of Abergavenny sank within 2 miles of Weymouth, Dorset with the the loss of 260 persons
  • HMS Foylebank - sunk during WWII in Portland Harbour
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