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Fighting blazes during the war

FIREFIGHTERS: Top row: London and north of England women. Middle row: Beryl Collins, ?, Betty Collins, Queenie Fryer, Rosemary Riley, Kath Hazzard, ?, Betty Baser (nee Carter). Front row: Beryl Hutland, Molly Trim, ?, Percy Lane, Mrs K Pitman, K Edge

9:28am Tuesday 23rd June 2009

MEMORIES of Weymouth’s wartime firefighters have been rekindled by Betty Baser.

When Weymouth won the quintuple

UPWEY & BROADWEY FC 1950-51: Back from left: M Taylor (chairman), S Brown (committee), A Wilson, K Cousins, R Frampton, T Pitman, D Hollins, N Restorick and F Strange (trainer). Front from left: L Miles, P Coombs, R Kinder, S Wiltshire (capt), M Lawes and

9:38am Tuesday 16th June 2009

MICHAEL Muncaster has sent us some fascinating details of the exploits of two of his relatives when they played for Weymouth Football Club in the early days of the last century.

Rocking back the clock in Weymouth

Rocking back the clock in Weymouth

9:35am Tuesday 9th June 2009

ONE, two, three o’clock, four o’clock, rock – it’s just over 50 years since Rock Around The Clock hit the silver screen.

The way we were... in a new book

LOOKING BACK: The Esplanade and beach in August 1933

9:40am Tuesday 28th April 2009

THE face and fabric of our towns and villages have changed immeasurably over the years.

Calling Dorset Scouts to mark 100th anniversary

Mike Greenham and John Gage look into the Scout archives

10:38am Tuesday 21st April 2009

TWO Scouting historians are compiling archives to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the movement in Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester.

From the Echo archives 50 years ago

10:44am Tuesday 24th March 2009

THE fate of 500 Weymouth pigeons is in the balance . . . and if Coun Arthur Pidgeon has his way their end will be short and swift.

The story of American troops in burton Bradstock before D-Day

American soldiersw talk to local youngsters under a tree in Byrton Bradstock

10:41am Tuesday 24th March 2009

SHE may have been a schoolgirl at the time but Elizabeth Buckler Gale has a good memory, a vivid imagination and a historian’s ability for research.

Memories of Holy Trinity School, Weymouth

Holy Trinity Infants in Class III in 1932

9:19am Tuesday 10th March 2009

A RECENT feature on Holy Trinity School in Looking Back stirred up memories for several former pupils.

Looking back at maritime disasters

9:43am Tuesday 24th February 2009

THE Dorset coast has been claiming ships and the lives of their crews since man first took to the water.

Weymouth's past pageantry – by Jim

Leading the procession with Mayor Folley

9:00am Tuesday 17th February 2009

JIM Goodenough had the ideal viewpoint to take snaps of the great and the good in Weymouth during the 60s and 70s.


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