With the help of volunteers, thousands of photographs from the Poole Borough Archive are currently being catalogued. Mostly originating from Poole’s planning department, the photographs range from the mundane (photographs of drainpipes, shop fronts and cracks in walls!) to fascinating images capturing Poole’s recent history. A picture is worth a thousand words…. The images provide… Read more A Snapshot of Poole’s Past
As a coastal town, Poole has always been vulnerable to attack by sea – from the Roman invasion, through the burning of the town by the Spanish in 1405, right up to the Second World War. ‘All my thoughts are directed towards England’ In the early months of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), the whole country… Read more The Napoleonic Invasion Threat
Our Conservator has completed the conservation of a large parchment map belonging to the Shaftesbury Estate. Here she describes the challenges of working with this complex material. As the Conservator at Dorset History Centre, I have the privilege of working on some fascinating and intricate documents, and in 2015 my skills were tested when I… Read more The conservation of Wimborne St Giles parchment map
For hundreds of years, Poole was one of the few English ports to have its own admiralty court. Newly catalogued records in the Poole Borough Archive give an insight into the town’s maritime heritage. From time immemorial, Poole had its own admiralty jurisdiction. The Winchelsea Certificate of 1364 is the oldest surviving document in the… Read more Poole’s Admiralty Court
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