Dorset Collection

Greenhill Gardens and Promenade, Weymouth, Dorset - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Mary Anning (1799-1847)
Pioneer fossil collector of Lyme Regis, Dorset. Oil painting by an unknown artist, before 1842. Golden Cap is visible in the background. Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Wimborne Minster, Dorset - The High Street Date: circa 1907

England / Mudeford 1940S
Narrowing down from the harbour, the River Avon passes through The Race at Mudeford, Dorset, England and then goes on to the sea

T. E. Lawrences House
The house at Clouds Hill, near Wool, Dorset, England, where British archaeologist, soldier, intelligence officer and writer, Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935)

West Cliff, Bournemouth, Dorset, looking towards Swanage - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Mill Pond, Swanage
A lovely tranquil scene, with ducks on the old mill-pond in the charming village of Swanage, Dorset, England. Date: 1939

Christchurch Priory and Ruins, Bournemouth. Date: circa 1905

Sandbanks Chain Ferry No. 1 - Entrance to Poole Harbour
The No.1 steam-powered Sandbanks chain ferry. Sandbanks Ferry is a vehicular chain ferry which crosses the entrance of Poole Harbour in the English county of Dorset

Ichthyosaurr, Plesiosaurus, Pterodactylus
Duria Antiquior - A more ancient Dorset by Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche. This collection of marine and avian reptiles could be found in Europe during the early Jurassic period about 200 million years

Shaftesbury / Gold Hill
Shaftesbury, Dorset: Gold Hill

Bournemouth Pier - Bournemouth, Dorset - viewed from the West Cliff

Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset
Sandbanks - a small peninsula or spit crossing the mouth of Poole Harbour on the English Channel coast at Poole in Dorset, England. The Childrens Pond. Date: circa 1930s

Corner of Baker Street and Dorset Street, Marylebone, London
National Westminster Bank building on the corner of Baker Street and Dorset Street, Marylebone, London. Date: circa 1905

Market Place, Blandford Forum, Dorset
Market Place, Blandford Forum, near Poole, Dorset, England. Date: 1904

Asteroceras, fossil ammonite
A 16 cm diameter specimen of the Jurassic ammonite Asteroceras from the Lower Jurassic of Dorset, England

Wessex / Waterstone House
Wessex scenery: Waterstone House, Dorset, home of Bathsheba Everdene in Thomas Hardys novel Far From the Madding Crowd

Lyme Regis Promenade
An old man with a bucket over his arm walks along the sea front at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England

Dorset Hay Wain
A farmer leading a horse-drawn hay cart (or hay wain) in a country lane in Dorset, England. Date: early 1940s

Sherborne / Dorset 1906
Sherborne, Dorset: (the model for Sherton Abbas in Thomas Hardys novel The Woodlanders) Long Street Date: 1906

Bournemouth Pier
Bournemouth, Dorset, viewed from the pier Date: 1895

Dorset / Moreton / Talbothay
A typical village lane at Moreton, Dorset, model for the village near Talbothays in Thomas Hardys novel Tess of the d Urbervilles

Suffragettes WSPU Wimbledon Banner
Members of the Wimbledon branch of the Womens Social and Political Union, with their banner displayed. Probably taken at an at home meeting in the garden of Rose Lamartine-Yates house - Dorset Hall

Drawing Room at Thomas Hardys home, Max Gate
View of the Drawing Room at Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset, the home of Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet. Hardy designed the house

Compton Acres Gardens at Canford Cliffs, near Poole, Dorset
View of Compton Acres Gardens in the village of Canford Cliffs, near Poole, Dorset. Bright pink flowers can be seen through an archway with a wrought iron gate

England / Lyme Regis
A glimpse of Lyme Regis High Street, Dorset, England, showing a young man on a bicycle outside Cox & Humphries radio shop and the church in the background

Chesil Beach / Dorset / 1930
Chesil Beach in Dorset

Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, at Max Gate
Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, outside his home at Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset. Hardy designed the house, and his brother built it -- Hardy and his first wife Emma moved there in 1885

England / Milton Abbas
The distinctive charm of the village street of Milton Abbas, Dorset. Built in the 1780s by Sir William Chambers at the request of Lord Milton; an early English model village Date: 1950s

Dorchester Road, Maiden Newton, England
Dorchester Road, Maiden Newton, near Dorchester, Dorset, England. Date: 1907

Dorset / Bere Heath / Egdon
Dorset scenery: Bere Heath in autumn - Egdon Heath in Thomas Hardys Return of the Native

William Thompsons fight off Poole, Dorset, 30 May 1695. Thompson was a local fisherman whose fishing boat was fired on by a French privateer near the Isle of Purbeck

Durdle Door, Lulworth, Dorset. circa 1970s

Retreat of T. E. Lawrence at Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset
The house at Clouds Hill, near Wool, Dorset, England, where British archaeologist, soldier, intelligence officer and writer, Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935)

Church Street, Christchurch, Dorset
Church Street, Christchurch, near Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Showing Tram, Broud Bros - Bootmakers & The Dolphin Inn Date: 1910

Hotel Burlington, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset. Includes an inset view of Moonrise from the Balcony of the Hotel. Date: circa 1910

Lyme Regis
The Lower Jurassic cliffs incorporating Lower Lias and Charmouth Mudstone rocks, Charmouth, Dorset, UK

Dorset Countryside
A lovely country scene, with a tiny stream and old mill, at Seatown, near Bridport, Dorset, England. Date: 1950s

Lulworth Cove on the Dorset coast Date: circa 1910

Blandford Union Workhouse, Blandford Forum, Dorset
Distant view of Blandford Union workhouse, from Salisbury Road, Blandford Forum, Dorset. A house at the left has a sign reading YNCA (or YMCA?)

Askers Road House near Dorchester in Dorset pictured at night with a smart car sweeping up the drive. Road houses gained in popularity during the inter-war years often offering drinking, dancing

The Village, Piddletrenthide, Dorchester, Buckland Newton, Dorset Downs, Dorset, England. Date: 1907

Aveling and Porter Steam Roller UR1881, built ca 1929, at Ferndown in Dorset. (Aveling and Porter was a British agricultural engine and steamroller (road roller) manufacturer

Alum Chine Suspension Bridge, Bournemouth, Dorset
Alum Chine Suspension Bridge, Bournemouth, near Poole, Dorset, England. Date: 1920s

Jane Austen Memorial
Bust and tablet to English author JANE AUSTEN at Lyme Regis, Dorset, marking the former location of a house called Wings, where she lodged in 1804. Date: 1775 - 1817

Bournemouth, Dorset - East Cliff Date: circa 1906

Bournemouth, Christchurch Priory from the River Avon. Date: 1909

1840s Victorian Map of Dorset

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