The aims of the Society are to:
a) Encourage interest and research into all aspects of our local history.
b) Conserve and maintain any documents and artefacts either donated or entrusted to the society.
Monthly meetings usually include a talk on some historical topic. There is an annual membership fee of £15 but non-members and visitors are welcome to meetings for a £3 entrance fee which includes tea/coffee and biscuits.
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Please remember, we don’t have a talk in August. Instead, we have our summer visit which will be to the Ancient Technology Centre here in Cranborne on Wednesday 7th August at 11am. This event is now fully booked but if any places become free, we will announce it on our website and Facebook pages or via email to members.
Our talk on Tuesday 2nd July at Cranborne Sports Club was well attended once again. Thanks for your support to all of you who came.
Anne Brown from Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum in Dorchester gave an interesting talk on ‘One Hundred and Fifty Years of Courtroom Drama’. This included a history of the Shire Hall building through the centuries and details of some individual trials that took place there.
The harshness of the sentences and physical punishments was highlighted especially as they were often inflicted on children. Transportation to Australia under hideous conditions on board ship and on land was common as were ‘private whippings’ of children (called private because they took place behind the prison walls but in front of all the inmates). The talk also included a few examples of criminals from around Cranborne.
So, many thanks to Anne; we will welcome her back in November when she will be talking about the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
Thank you to Steph and Neil for being excellent hosts at the sports club and to Linda for sorting out the refreshments.
We do not have a talk in August but instead have a visit to the Ancient Technology Centre (ATC) here in Cranborne at 11am on Wednesday 7th August. If you haven’t already booked your place, please contact our secretary Dorothy by phone (01725 517569) or email (clhssecretary@gmail.com) as soon as possible.
Tickets are £5 per person and include tea, coffee and cake. Please bring your own picnic if you wish. We will have use of the Viking longhouse if the weather turns wet. Family and friends are welcome; grandchildren go free!
Please visit the ATC website through the link below.
https://ancienttechnologycentre.com/