Laid to rest in a shallow grave lined with stones beneath a wooden board and sealed under a slab of Purbeck marble carved with an ornamental cross, who was the unknown woman buried close to the 12th century chapel at St Aldhelm’s Head?
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‘Bravest man in the world’
Pioneer aviator Louis Strange died quietly at his home in Worth Matravers fifty years ago this month. Dubbed ‘the bravest man in the world’ by his friend and comrade, Robert Smith-Barry (who developed the internationally recognised ‘Gosport System’ of flying instruction), Louis Strange would have been a national hero in any other age, his life Read More…
Elvis McGonagall – Purbeck’s people’s poet
It takes all sorts, of course it does, but how does a physically imposing, wild-haired son of Perth with a passion for poetry and a penchant for revolutionary politics come to be at large in the Purbeck hills? For more than a dozen years now Elvis McGonagall, or as his passport would have it Richard Read More…