A glimpse into Dorset’s summers past

The Dorset History Centre houses thousands of photos from bygone eras. From over-dressed Victorian summers, hard-working Edwardian summers, chilly fetes from the fifties to fun at the fair and sporting lasses from the twenties our repositories hold them all.

For one day only, on 17 August, there will be a free exhibition showing images drawn from a wide range of archive collections illustrating summers in Dorset over the last 150 years.  

This is an opportunity to see unique material, including photographs, slides and postcards not available in digital format. 

Find out how to look after your own photographic heritage, how to add it to the archives and how photography has developed through the ages.

There will also a display of more contemporary Dorset photography from the Dorchester Camera Club – itself nearly 90 years old.

And to link with the Dorset Cider festival in the town’s Borough Gardens there is a film of old-time cider drinkers at ‘Will’s Surgery’.

This is a free exhibition, 10am to 3pm on Saturday 17 August, at the Dorset History Centre, on the Bridport Rd, Dorchester, DT11RP.

For more information about the Dorset History Centre visit https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/dorset-history-centre