Looking Back

MAP: Showing the Western Front, The Battle of Arras and the Second Battle of the Aisne

Improved tactics as the British broke through in Hundred Days Offensive

How Woolies played a huge role in a life

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Why this atmospheric ride through time is so fondly remembered

Remembering Weymouth men who died in Great War's final battle

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When a trip to the beach involved head to toe attire

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How pupil proved headmaster wrong

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Victorian engraving shows resort's wooden pier

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When Weymouth seafront was destroyed by Great Gale of 1824

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Joan's fond memories of working as a Woolies shop girl

Pictures: Little Miss Weymouth is all grown up!

When new shops came to Chapelhay after landmine

Pictures: Memories of 'Bug' and 'Pug' Welford and more grammar school teachers

When a Dorset town was put up for sale

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Pictures: How Dorset County Show was kept alive despite mounting costs

Looking back to a perfect day paddling at Weymouth beach

Pink wafers and riding an escalator for the first time - your memories of Woolies

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When Woolies was the highlight of a Weymouth shopping trip

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Pictures: Looking back over the history of this house (and there's a lot of it)

The pupils who became teachers at Weymouth Grammar School

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Deciphering the most ancient of legal cases - Dorset History Centre's latest challenge

Town that brewed UK's strongest beer

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Blessing the waters in the 1970s

Remembering when ladybirds attacked

Thin Lizzy, Free and Procol Harum among resort's visitors

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When a World Cup-winning hero laced up his boots to play for Weymouth

Pictures: When it was so hot people were attacked by ladybirds

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Celebrating documents that shed light on one of England's richest families

Stepping back in time to Chapelhay in the 1950s

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My hydrogen bomb-testing experience

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Parading through the streets of Weymouth in 1964

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Genesis once played in Weymouth - at a school!

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When England's World Cup hero paid a visit

When the hospital saw just 70 outpatients a week

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Keeping screaming fans at bay at Stones gig

Viking and Saxon history to come to life with re-enactments this weekend

Summer of '65 was like nothing town had ever seen before

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Learn about the lives of Edwardian children and how illness was an inevitability

How fire station came together

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Sharing stars-and-striped-themed memory for US Independence Day tomorrow

When Gordon Brown had to leave Portland in a hurry

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The writer whose mother was killed by a rat's tail

Celebrating the Weymouth MP who helped change the world for the better

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Remembering when England won the World Cup...

Tales from Georgian building discovered during a demolition

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As Royal couple celebrate anniversary we remember their visits to town

Examining the lives of wartime women

Celebrating 30 years of cycling to raise cash for a cause

When entering a lion's cage to sing and play cello was typical Weymouth entertainment

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Hero GI who fought his way on to Omaha Beach and stole the heart of a Weymouth woman

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Remembering Noddy's days at Weymouth Pavilion

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How the Portland railway came about

D-Day dockyard worker who died at 39 is among the heroes to be honoured with statue tributes tomorrow

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Celebrating 65 years on the throne with a Royal Weymouth memory

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