S&DJR train carrying a Townswomen’s Guild trip arrives at #SturminsterNewton. Porter to Guard: “Wer be gwain wi all they women?”
“We’m going to Burnham.”
“There’s a waste. Save oone vor I.”

Robert Young 1810-1908 recalled celebrating victory at Waterloo where his uncle was a Dragoon. Born a Georgian, died an Edwardian and saw an early motor car in #SturminsterNewton #Dorset saw rural transformation as railways arrived.

One night I stood for 30minutes listening to one singing in #SturminsterNewton

Today we were back in #Dorset at #SturminsterNewton for a multi camera #funeral #service

Our local Police Sergeant Wally Ricketts commandeered boat and lassooed one of our heifers which had slipped into the #Dorset Stour #1960s #SturminsterNewton

Notional minimum wage now set at a few magic beans. Photo by George Wright for #Landwrites project at #SturminsterNewton #Dorset

Well worth using the North Dorset Trailway along the old #SomersetAndDorsetJtRailway from #SturminsterNewton to #Spetisbury - calling at #NTHambledonHill #HodHill then cross #CrawfordBridge to #Shapwick and #NTBadburyRings as the man says, fully of Ramparty Goodness! 😉🤩

Local Squire George Pitt-Rivers was a Mosleyite and interned during WW2. I’m proud to say that on a visit the pair were jeered out of a tea room here in #SturminsterNewton. Doing that to the Lord Of The Manor took some courage in the 1930s.

👀 St Mary’s Church #SturminsterNewton #Dorset

#DecemberAngels by #HarryClarke 1921