Society of Dorset Men

The Dorset Year Book

Cover photo by Daphne Wuenn "Summer sunrise looking east from Swyre Head"

Among the content of the 2021 Dorset Year Book

Dame Elizabeth Frink
Exodus
The Purbeck Quire
Hardy's Dog
HMS Formidable
VJ Day
Bridport Railway
Bournemouth History
Dorset Poems
The Nothe Fort
Historic Churches Trust

This edition is packed with fascinating and informative articles covering the people and places across Dorset

Copies may be obtained from the following: Weymouth – Books Afloat: Dorchester – Tourist Information Centre and Waterstones: Bridport – Waterstones and Tourist Office: Shaftesbury - Tourist Information: Wimborne – Gullivers Bookshop: Poole – D.J Brookings Bookshop (Upper Parkstone): Portland – Cards and Celebrations(Easton). Copies can be obtained by post at cost of £10 including postage by contacting 01305 833700

Dorset Year Book Editor

Nick Wright

39 Cross Road

Weymouth

Dorset

DT4 9QX

tel: 01305 459268

email: - wright1941@btinternet.com

Past Year Book Editors

Sir Newman Flower 1920 - 32

Stanley J. Galpin 1933 - 34

H. L. I. Watkins 1935 - 37

Ashley C. Rogers 1937 - 50

F. C. H. Dennett 1951 - 60

N. J. (Nat) Byles 1961 - 78

Fred Langford 1979 - 94

George Lanning 1995 - 2000

Peter Pitman 2000 - 2012

Trevor Vacher-Dean 2012 - 2014