Aircraftsman Ross had other names, as T.E Shaw he made his home in Dorset, his real name was Thomas Edward Lawrence, the world knows him as Lawrence of Arabia, and this is a walking trail named in his honour. It begins at the Tank museum in Bovington Dorset, where he worked for a time asContinue reading “Aircraftsman Ross-a walk”
Category Archives: Walking
Poole Heritage Walk
The “Cockle Trail” in Poole, my local big town, was launched in 1998 to mark the the 750th anniversary of it’s ancient charter. Markers, like the one above, are set into the ground in front of buildings of historical note. I set out with my Canon EOS 30, loaded up with a roll of Ilford’sContinue reading “Poole Heritage Walk”
A Hardy Walk
The author Thomas Hardy was born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, in this cottage on 2nd June 1860. His works feature characters that are drawn from the Dorset people and set in fictitious places but based squarely on real local places – hence the real Dorchester becomes “Casterbridge” in the novel “The Mayor of Casterbridge” andContinue reading “A Hardy Walk”
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