 | Firm’s records are safe at last | | 11:13am Tue 18 Mar 08 | | THE complete company records of Cosens & Co Ltd, the famous Weymouth paddle steamer operators and marine engineers, are now safely housed in the County Archives at the Dorset History Centre. |
 | Oil’s well that ends well at tank farm | | 8:42am Tue 11 Mar 08 | | NEWS that the last of the oil tanks on Portland are to be demolished has given us another chance to delve into the archives of Portland author and historian Stuart Morris. |
 | Your memories are needed | | 8:23am Tue 4 Mar 08 | | DO THESE images bring back any memories of Dorchester, Weymouth and Portland in years gone by? |
 | The day of St Patrick | | 9:48am Tue 26 Feb 08 | | Transport historian Brian Searle looks back at the life and times of the St Patrick, one of Weymouth's most popular passenger ferries. The 'Paddy', as she was affectionately known, made her maiden voyage 60 years ago this month . . . |
 | Damning evidence of film-making process | | 8:49am Tue 19 Feb 08 | | WHILE The Damned may not have gone down in history as the greatest Hammer flick ever made, the film still has a place in the hearts of many residents of Weymouth and Portland. A deluge of responses followed Looking Back's appeal for information on the film and, readers quickly answered the question Where is Shirley Anne standing?'
One of the first people to call was Tony Short who identified the house in the background of the shot of Shirley Anne as Cheyne House, an isolated house east of Southwell on Portland. |
 | History brought to book | | 8:26am Tue 12 Feb 08 | | SO inspired was William Barnes by Beaminster that he lyricised to the town:
'Sweet Be'mi'ster, that bist a-bound
By green and woody hills all round, Wi' hedges, reachen up between
A thousand vields o'zummer green.'
Nor was the 19th-century rural poet the first to be taken by this small market town. |
 | Fifty years on, the brilliant Busby Babes | | 10:04am Tue 5 Feb 08 | | TOMORROW is the 50th anniversary of the Munich Plane Crash, in which eight of the famous Manchester United Busby Babes died. Local football enthusiast Alan Burt recalls the impact the event had locally and nationally and traces the many links between Weymouth and Manchester United. |
 | Postcards from the past | | 8:32am Wed 30 Jan 08 | | PICTURE postcards from different corners of the world are helping an Australian woman uncover the truth about her late Dorset aunt. |
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