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i spoke to the wife and she said i can give her away 😄

Welcome to the recent new members of the Local History Club Martin Firemanfrosty

Looks like the old Dorchester Hill coming out of Blandford on the old A354? It’s such a shame that although you can get through the hedge onto the new A354 there is no footpath or bridleway opposite so unless you fancy walking along an A road only option is turn back. Up on the old Dorchester Road, Go over the bridge to Blandford St Mary, keep going straight past Stour Inn until you come to a large gate, where you can walk through and up the hill. The old road into town before the bypass was built, connects onto the A354 to Dorchester, it went under a bridge pretty much where the round about/tesco petrol station is. Apparently it’s still there buried according to local folklore. Extract from Abanoned Roads group on Facebook

you'll find the postie struggling to get it off the floor of the van 😄

i've been looking at this for detectoring and seems most public places are on the crown estate and information on this can be found on the crown estate website. I think you'll be fine as long as it's not private or part of a trust like national trust.

100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum Hi all. thought i would sign up and share with you this superb WW2 Royal Airforce museum that is local to me. Have to say it is a first class place to visit and also free entry https://www.100bgmus.org.uk/

I was quite surprised how cheap bronze Roman coins are on eBay. especially when they are not cleaned. I googled why and seems they produced so many bronze coins that many survived. Saying that silver and gold roman coins are a kettle of fish cost wise, there is a gold coin going on eBay for £135,000... sweet find.

thats what i was thinking.. to think that someone has held that coin and used it to buy a loaf. I was saying to the wife about how many pots of gold there are out there. I bet there are loads.

great share, i knew they were there but never seen them. need to find some information about the nearby gas works when it was blown up killing workers on their lunch break. tragic. they were aiming for the bridge.

https://www.steam-museum.org.uk/ I love this museum and its on my doorstep. Great place to visit if you are into Steam Trains and also has a shopping village in there for the wives and girlfriends who don't want to be dragged around a museum Highly recommend visiting sometime, you'll love it !

This one is a local one to me and have been there so many times and still manage to find something I havent seen before

i tried looking when i lived nearby but is overgrown.