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Follow the links for more in-depth News on -- 
  • Facebook Group A few items that have appeared in our Facebook group
  • Stalbridge Field Names  The following list of Field names in Stalbridge may be interesting to readers of S&DN&Q.  I shall be glad to have light thrown upon their meaning.
  • ​​​Past Talks  Posters.
  • The Park Dig  Stalbridge House - The house was supposedly the fifth biggest in Dorset and Charles I and George III even visited, but by around 1827 it was no more. 
  • Stalbridge Junior School  A pupil's account 1956 - 1962. ​

​Newsletter December 2020

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​Stalbridge History Matters
The History Society Newsletter 
Dec 25th 2020 Volume 4, Issue 2

If you are a member of the society you will have received your copy of our latest newsletter, as you can see from the "Contents" opposite there are some interesting and in-depth articles.

If you would like to become a member download the appropriate form from This page 
Newsletter Christmas Competition 


Stalbridge & Gloving

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Stalbridge History Society has set up a small group to examine the extent and effect of the glove making industry on Stalbridge over many years. Aspects of this work remain in living memory and we would be glad to receive any reminiscences and documents relating to it. In the first instance please contact:
stalbridgehistory@gmail.com
Great care will be taken of any material submitted and it will be returned to the owner.
(Contribution: Hilary Townsend) 


​Oral History Project

Oral history is the recording of people’s memories, experiences and opinions. It is:
   A living history of everyone’s unique life experiences
   An opportunity for those people who have been ‘hidden from history’ to have their voice heard
   A rare chance to talk about and record history face-to-face
   A source of new insights and perspectives that may challenge our view of the past.
(Oral History Society)

Having attended the Dorset History Centre’s Oral History recording training session in 2019, we are looking for anyone who would like to record their Stories.  If anybody knows of anyone who would like to be recorded, we would love to hear from you – we do need you to sign a consent form, so that we can allow people to hear and share the recorded material in the future.  We will be storing the transcriptions and a copy of the recording with the Stalbridge Archive.
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stalbridgehistory@gmail.com 
​(Contribution: Jude Watts)

​50 years ago

​From ‘The Ring’ magazine:
 ‘There must be in Stalbridge homes – in writing, photograph or painting, or purely in the memory, many facts about Stalbridge of yesteryear. Tales heard from parents or grandparents – events experienced in youth. To the Stalbridgian by birth these may be common knowledge, of no general interest – to the Stalbridgian by adoption they may prove fascinating reading … We are not asking for long articles – we are asking about snippets of information about ​events, and personalities, of the past in Stalbridge.’ (Ref: The Ring. Vol.1, No 3. February 1969)
​50 years on, we have the same requests please!​ Contact
(Editor Dr Carly Hall Stalbridge History Matters Vol 1 Issue 4)
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