Iron Age roundhouse
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.
Two striking new pieces of art celebrating Bournemouth’s famous coastline will greet seafront visitors this summer. BCP Council have commissioned two local artists to revamp and improve the visitor experience around Bournemouth Pier Approach Flyover and Boscombe Land Train Garage on Undercliff Drive. Starting this week, 16 pillars at Bournemouth’s Pier Approach Flyover, an area […]
The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum has been awarded a grant of £518,000 from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports, delivered by Arts Council England. This money will be used on a project to restore the original 1901 conservatory, replace the air-handling units and improve drainage. This grant forms part of almost £50 […]
