Destined to make a splash

Historian and swimmer Greg Schofield

4:00pm Tuesday 30th April 2013

In the history of swimming in Weymouth, two nurses stand out; Nurse Peters, who taught literally thousands of children to swim in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, for Weymouth Swimming Club – and Nurse Craven who captured the town’s imagination in 1925 with her intention to swim the English Channel.

Freezing on the North Korean border

The Dorset regiment on the North Korean border in the 1950s

2:00pm Tuesday 23rd April 2013

THIS timely image of the Dorset regiment on the North Korean border was sent in by regular reader Derek Julian of Weymouth.

Dorchester's high street story

2:00pm Tuesday 23rd April 2013

MORE this week from Weymouth resident Ron Beasley, who is continuing his guided tour of Dorchester in the 1940s. This week he remembers the shops and other buildings that lined High West Street and High East Street. We start from the corner of Cornhill and High West Street where Lloyds bank stands...

That's entertainment at the Regent

A pensioners’ screening at the Regent Centre, Christchurch, in the 1960s

2:00pm Tuesday 23rd April 2013

WITH Weymouth Pavilion hardly enjoying rude health at present, we look east to where the Regent Centre in Christchurch is celebrating three decades as the town’s theatre, cinema and entertainment centre.

Taking the register

n Melcombe Regis Boys School in either 1953 or 1954, sent in by Reg Jordan

10:04am Tuesday 16th April 2013

OUR thanks to Reg Jordan and Laurie Wilkes who took the time to come in with almost identical class photos taken at Melcombe Regis Boys School in Weymouth.

Daughter finally gets to pay respects to her late dad, 71 years on

LOVING MEMORY: Joan House laying a wreath at the St Nazaire cenotaph with St Nazaire Society member Peter Lush, right, who organised her visit to France

10:02am Tuesday 16th April 2013

ONE of the joys of the Looking Back page is the way it occasionally reunites families and friends and helps people reconnect with their past.

Royal visit for resort

SPECIAL DELIVERY: Crowds, traffic and bunting in St Thomas Street in honour of the Princess.

12:08pm Tuesday 9th April 2013

FOLLOWING Tony Biles’s piece about Princess Anne’s visit to Weymouth in June 1971, historian Stuart Morris has been in touch with these two photos of the event.

Summer methodist church outing

ALL DRESSED UP: Summer outing for Weymouth’s Methodist Church, circa 1913

12:07pm Tuesday 9th April 2013

RICHARD Samways has been back in touch about the Maiden Street Methodist Church outing (Looking Back, March 26).

Dramas during election time

UNREST: The Crabchurch Conspiracy wasn’t the only time Weymouth and Melcombe Regis experienced periods of political unrest

12:06pm Tuesday 9th April 2013

WITH less than a month to go before the next round of local elections, Weymouth historian Greg Schofield casts his eye over the occasionally turbulent political past of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the years between 1666 and 1945.

Different world

VERY CRAFTY: The items for sale at a craft fair had all been made by patients during occupational therapy sessions

1:00pm Thursday 28th March 2013

THE HISTORY OF Herrison Hospital near Dorchester has been brought vividly to life by former nurse Jackie Allen (nee Fisher).

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