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Keeping the memories of hospital alive

A little artistic licence goes a long way

Calling all those from the classes of '65 and '66

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A World Cup referee, rough cider and a selling the most beer contest - Portlander's memories

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Mystery of Hardy filming solved

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Survivor of destroyed ship was known on isle

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'I live where this picture was painted'

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Navy man who took on three German ships from his small vessel

Why this handbook became so indispensable in the 1800s

King George III could be in this picture of Weymouth's lost cavalry barracks

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The 'frightening contraption' in which six men died

The fascinating couple who created Radipole Gardens - and left a huge legacy for Weymouth

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Old picture shows Belvedere pub (before the days of health and safety)

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Teen life book project gaining momentum

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Incredible snapshots of the past are going on display

When the Wild Mouse Ride featured in a movie

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How this diarist documented Dorset life 'the year the world changed'

A place of worship for fishermen and kings: The amazing history of this humble church

13 pictures to remind you of the devastating storms in 2014...five years on

The history of Weymouth's beach donkeys is being explored - and your memories are needed

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Five facts you may not know about the funfair that used to be at Westham Bridge

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Murder, smuggling and shipwrecked mariners: The grisly history of Weymouth's oldest pub

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Beach was the perfect blank canvas

Snow dwarfs a man

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How Poppy, 90, began a lifetime of helping others

Smoking concert tracked down.....to another town

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How an escaped pet may have led to Monkey's Jump roundabout getting its name

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Popular pub that has stood the test of time

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Carnival bombshell stirs precious memories

Town's much-missed fun fair

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Why railway dock never came to town's cove

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Much-missed railway and funfair had a special place in children's hearts

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Captain of Dorsetshire was a Victoria Cross winner

Tracking down the town's Running Horse - home of 'smoking concerts'

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Why community was so desperate to replace Dorset's famous warship

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Cinema in the most unlikely of locations

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Cheeky youngster goes for a cycle outside much-missed pub

The pub replaced by a roundabout

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Help find missing Weymouth link in researcher's tribute quest

Concealed behind a pub wall for decades - locals' support for warship

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What youngsters did to receive 12 lashes of the whip

Tending to horses and gardens on Portland

How this ancient printing press was given a new lease of life

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Seven-year-old's life of crime

Beware road's extremely sharp turn

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These snow-covered hills were the setting for a love story more tragic than Romeo and Juliet

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An unusually crowded Bowleaze Cove

Revealing how Dorset's past links to present day lives

The mental health problem that transformed Weymouth

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Where nuns ruled the roost

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FOUND: Street tracked down 110 years on

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UNBELIEVABLE: Car pile-up on Chesil Beach

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What happened when a reporter spent New Year's Eve at the county's 'lunatic asylum'

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