Before the bombing and subsequent redevelopment of Chapelhay there were a large number of pubs. There were 5 in
Marks and Spencer opened their Store in St Mary Street in 1932, occupying nos. 6, 7 and 8. Acquisition
The Oliver family were well known as fishmongers, various branches being found in Lower St Edmund Street, Abbotsbury road,
Market House next to St. Mary’s Church was built in 1855 and designed by Talbot Bury who had worked
Some residents may remember the Phoenix building which stood at the end of North Quay and High Street. It
Here is a scene which has hardly changed sine the photograph was taken around the early years of the
The Riviera Hotel was of modernist design built of reinforced concrete and completed in 1937, an additional storey to
Fronting Dorchester Road is the former Weymouth College chapel, now converted to residential use. Weymouth College was a public
This photo dates from earlier that 1928 as it shows a splendid row of warehouses adjoining the Town Bridge.
When the writer was a child in the 1950s and 1960s he occasionally walked along St Nicholas Street Street
