Beer and trains! Swanage Railway Diesel Gala and Beer Festival details revealed
TRAINS and beer will be on offer at a special event this month. Swanage Railway is set to host its…
Novelist’s blue plaque was on wrong property
By Neill Child, Wareham Museum volunteer. “It was a rather noteworthy country town…it wore its antiquity with a sort of…
Swanage book reveals famous and Royal visitors to our town
By Sara Niven. In the third and final part of our look at a new book on the history of…
How Swanage shrugged off its industrial past to become a holiday destination…
By Sara Niven. SWANAGE’S place as an attractive seaside destination may seem obvious now. But for decades, the town’s industrial history…
Book explores complex identity of seaside town with industrial roots
By Sara Niven. FROM stone and spa to steam – and everything in between – the history and mixed fortunes…
The original Home Guard volunteers
On display in Wareham Museum is a large formal photograph presented to Lieut. L.Sturdy 1st Vol Battn, Dorset Regt…
How Dorset coped in the Great War
November 11 is VE Day, the anniversary of Europe declaring victory in the First World War. This month, the…
Explore archives for family history
Swanage Museum will be holding an open weekend at the Swanage History Centre on November 5 and 6, in…
Did king really scorn the town?
The Wareham Arms, as reproduced on the Corporation Seal, are Gules, a crescent surmounted by a star between three…
Shipwreck is of enormous historical significance
I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been fascinated by the discovery of the Mortar Wreck in Studland…