Mr Kyps, Poole It’s asking a lot to find greatness on a cold, wet Sunday night in the back streets of Ashley Cross. It’s asking even more of a 72-year-old singer songwriter who has already battled through delayed flights from New York, a rushed Radio 2 interview in London and a typically tardy Sunday train Read More…
Month: February 2015
Chris Chibnall 2015
Chris Chibnall has done as much to raise the profile of Dorset in the nation’s eye as anyone in recent years. The creator of Broadchurch, which was shot on location largely in and around West Bay and is now back with an eagerly anticipated second series, moved here some 12 years ago to settle in Bridport. Read More…
Studland’s Battle of Britain secret
Taken by Aircraftsman Tom Williams, who was stationed at the RAF radio station on Studland Hill, shortly after midday on 25 September 1940, this picture is one of a sequence that chronicles a Heinkel He111 bomber crash-landing at Westland Farm on Ballard Down, near Studland. The photos – on one-inch by two-inch enprints – had Read More…
John Lennon’s aunt Mimi and Sandbanks
It may not have been the haunt of footballers, pop stars and Russian plutocrats that it is today, but when John Lennon bought his aunt Mimi Smith a waterside home at Sandbanks in 1965, it was already an exclusive address. The average price of a house in the UK then was little more than £3,500, Read More…