Camp Bestival 2022
Camp Bestival, 28-31 July 2022. On 30 July, festival go-ers broke the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Largest Disco Dance.
Poole Museum is preserving its long and rich past by investing in conservation and restoration work on two of the historically significant buildings on the site – Oakley’s Mill, a Victorian grain warehouse and the Grade 1 Listed Wool Hall. This work is funded by the UK Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme which aims to […]
For the first time ever, Chalke Valley History Festival will have a replica of an Iron Age roundhouse on site. It’s been built by the team at the Ancient Technology Centre in Cranborne, with help from local scout groups who got hands-on with the daubing. It’s secured to the ground with hazel stakes. Hazel also […]
by designer, Chris Beardshaw on the gold medal winning Show Garden, will be sold at a public plant sale on Friday 3 June at the RNLI College in Poole.
Lyme Regis Museum is celebrating the life and work of one the town’s most famous daughters, Mary Anning, with the unveiling of a rarely seen portrait of the renowned paleontologist, an exhibition featuring one of her rare ichthyosaurs and a stunning newly discovered genus and species of extinct marine ‘crocodile’ found by two local fossil […]
In pictures – the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022
Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning finally has a statue in her home town of Lyme Regis thanks to schoolgirl Evie Swire. It was unveiled by Professor Alice Roberts on 21 May 2022, overlooking Black Ven cliffs and Golden Cap, on the 223rd anniversary of Anning’s birth. It was a historic day both for Lyme Regis […]
In pictures – Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens
A star object from the Victoria and Albert Museums collection is due to go on display in a new exhibition being held at Dorset Museum.
