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The materials in the Archive are found at the Home Page in three separate search areas:
Interactive Maps has maps from the early nineteenth century (Tithe maps), Ordnance Survey maps dating from the 1880s and aerial photographs from the 1940s and 1970s. These have been geo-rectified. This means that they are each on the same map projection and scale and so can be compared directly without further corrections for distortions due to printing, photography or design. They form a continuous map from west to east along the Dorset coast. For more information about maps see Interactive Maps: Cartography.
Learning Packages provide detailed background materials: for example, describing how our use of the seaside has changed and using images such as the one below. This shows part of Studland beach. Please note that the Learning Packages section has its own search facility.
Image Library can be searched for individual images. In the learning materials below, the URL for each suggested image is given as a direct link so that you do not have to search the archive.
There is also an Interactive Timeline on the home page: http://www.dcda.org.uk/ which displays a selection of images from the Archive in time sequence.
SEARCHING THE ARCHIVE
We have provided you with links to all the images which occur in the archive under the search term "Osmington". The table at the end of this Learning Package contains detailed notes on the images which should help you to understand the type of materials available here, their limitations and their value.
The box at the end of this section (Searching the Dorset Coast Digital Archive) summarises the main features of the Search tools for this archive. There are a number of very important principles to recognise. The entries in the archive are based on the original information held in the originating archive or museum. We have not changed that information. This means that if there are spelling mistakes or errors made by the original archivist or by the creator of the image, for example by using an uncommon place-name or giving the wrong location, this has not been corrected.
- First, this means that if you want to find the original item by a visit to the museum or archive where it is held, its catalogue will record the original notes made by creator or archivist. Changes to the original records would have resulted in wasting the user's time and that of the archive or museum staff.
- Second, the original creator may have made a mistake but we cannot know for certain. There is, for example, a photograph of ships preparing for the Bruneval raid during the Second World War. It is labelled as the Brundall raid. Was this deliberate or simply a mistake? We cannot possibly know, but it would not be correct for this archive to change the original record.
Whenever images do not have a title, we have not added one. As a result, images appear with a label "Untitled". There are some very interesting images about which we know some details, but they were never given a title by their creator. We have not felt it appropriate to do that as it could lead to future confusion as to the origins of the title.
Similarly, it has often been impossible to be certain about dates. Many images are undated. If we know the creator we may be able to place the image between the dates of birth and death of the creator or within a range of dates when they were working. But we cannot be more precise than that.
The important point to remember is that archives only record the information that was available at the time the record was made. If the original record is revised, that information may then be added to the digital archive. So, if you have new information about any individual image, please let the original archive know.
Much of the content of the Archive can be used in many curriculum areas. However, this Topic demonstrates how selected items might be used within Geography to meet the requirements of each of the following curriculum areas:
- Key Stage 1 (Year 2) Geography Unit 4: Going to the Seaside
- Key Stage 2 (Years 5/6) Geography Unit 23: Investigating Coasts
- Key Stage 3 (Year 8) Geography Unit 8: Coastal Environments
Aspects of Key Stages 1-3 Geography exemplified by materials in the DCDA
Key Stage 1 (Year 2) Geography Unit 4: Going to the Seaside
Pupils can examine a wide range of archive materials from the DCDA that will help them to shape an understanding of this unit. Allowing children to see how the use of a landscape changes with time and space is an important concept that can be demonstrated using the archives. The maps and aerial photographs within the Interactive Maps allow direct comparisons to be made.
The images can be saved and printed or can be displayed on an interactive whiteboard. There are a small number of images in the demonstration parish that show people at the seaside (See Keywords and Images Table at the end of this section).
Key Stage 2 (Years 5/6) Geography Unit 23: Investigating Coasts
There are many ways that the DCDA could contribute to this Geography unit. Putting the word "defence" into the search engine brings up many photos of coastal engineering works all along the Dorset Coast. Many of these photos and the accompanying information can be used to address the learning objectives of this Unit such as "Why do we need to manage the coastline?" In this parish, there is very little of this material because it is a rural site and there is very little property which is at risk from erosion. This does not mean that there are no coastal management questions to ask. In particular, see Theme 3 Topic 1 Impacts of Landslides and Coastal Change and Theme 1 Topic 3 Coastal Form Processes (both refer specifically to problems at Ringstead). Because the parish coastline forms part of the "Jurassic Coast" World Heritage Site and is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for both geological and biological reasons, questions can be posed about the management alternatives for this area.
There are also quite poignant historical photographs of young men rebuilding piers after World War 2. Pupils could investigate these photographs not only from a geographical sense, but also from a historical point of view in terms of measures taken by the government during WW2 and the effect it has had on our landscape. The tithe maps and apportionments on the DCDA site can be accessed to see how the coastal land was used in the nineteenth century by communities and how their lives were still largely dependent on local landowners.
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| Specimen of pressed seaweed "Halydris siliguosa" collected by Horatia Mary Nelson (Lord Nelson's daughter) in about 1850. We do not know where she found it. |
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Key Stage 3 (Year 8) Geography Unit 8: Coastal Environments
Again the DCDA can be used as an excellent resource here for pupils to investigate different representations of the coastline. For example, there are a number of images which include sketches and paintings of the shore. When images like this are compared to photography, pupils can be challenged in many ways and allowed to explore geography from many novel angles such as the perceived power of the sea and the use of the coast then and now.
An understanding of Cartography can be initiated through using the Interactive Maps on the site. It allows comparisons of maps from different eras to be made so that the learner can take two historical sets of maps and actually compare the physical changes in a given area: photographs from the archive show the change pictorially. The partnership with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site Team http://www.swgfl.org.uk/jurassic/ opens up potential for visits from their people and visits to the Jurassic Coast site to experience and handle materials that are millions of years old.
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| Polysiphonia violacea was collected at Osmington in the 1970s |
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"What's in Your Backyard?" Lets you enter your postcode to see maps that show if your area is at risk of flood, whether there's a landfill site near your house or how healthy the rivers are in your area. www.environment-agency.gov.uk
Click on Education for a wide range of schools learning packages and information about the environment in the South West at www.swenvo.org.uk . |
SEARCHING THE DORSET COAST DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Basic Search searches all the available information fields. It often returns a very large number of results, and is best used as an initial search tool.
Avoid small or very common words in your search terms (e.g. "the" "and" or "in"). If you enter a two or more word search term, the search engine will look for any record that contains any of the individual search terms, not the terms all together. Try to use less frequently used terms.
To refine your search or carry out a search for a more specific subject or item, try using the Advanced Search tool below the Basic Search option.
Advanced Search Tool allows you to refine or combine a number of specific searches that look in the individual fields of information held about each item (metadata). These options include:
Title - This searches the text of the title of the item, e.g. Map of Milton Abbas. Not all items may have titles listed.
Keywords - This field contains up to four more general keywords that describe the subject of the item, or related areas of interest. Click HERE to open a comprehensive list of the keywords used in the DCDA project - this may help you to find what you are looking for.
Creator - This is the individual responsible for, or credited with, the creation of the item, where it is known. This field is unknown for many of the records in the DCDA Image Library.
Publisher - This field is the individual responsible for, or credited with, the publication of the item, where it is known or has been published. Not all items have been published, so this field is unknown or empty for many of the records in the DCDA Image Library.
Contributor - This is an individual or organisation responsible for, or credited with, contributing to the creation of the item, where it is known. For example - the engraver of an engraved piece of artwork would be listed here. This field is unknown or empty for many of the records in the DCDA Image Library.
Eastings and Northings - This searches the Image Library by spatial location, using easting and northing co-ordinates to define an area for searching.
Description - is the general description of the item, and includes much of the information known about the item.
Placename Association - This is the name of a place or location that is associated with the item. It may be the subject of a painting (e.g. Weymouth) or the place of manufacture, depending on the type of the item.
You can select all or one of these different options according to how you wish to search the Image Library. This can provide you with a very flexible searching tool for the Image Library.
On the right hand side of the Advanced Search window, there are some additional tools that you may wish to use to refine your search further.
Themes - The items in the archive have been allocated according to the Themes used in the Learning Packages, and you can select one theme at a time to search for items.
Location - This is the location of the original item - for example which museum looks after the originals.
Format - This is the type of item that you are looking for. For example: Photograph. The items you can choose from are Map; Photograph; Image (image other than photograph of map, includes paintings or drawings); Object; Text (e.g. Report or Music Programme) and Text and Images (e.g. Newspaper articles or restaurant menu).
Date range - You can use this tool to enter the "Before" and "After" dates for which you wish to search the library.
Don't forget, you can use any combination of search types in the Advanced Search to help you find what you are looking for. You still need to use a search word at all times.
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THE DEMONSTRATION PARISH
One coastal parish, Osmington, is used here as an example of how the maps, photographs and documents in the DCDA help us to interpret the landscape and the history of the communities in which we live.
It demonstrates
- that photographs from different dates show how the coast has changed both physically and in the way in which it is used
- how the history of a place may be traced through the patterns of land ownership
- their place in war and peace
- how the landscape can be changed by particular applications of science and technology
- how places disappear as well as grow
- links to global World Heritage Site issues which exist on the local coast http://www.swgfl.org.uk/jurassic/opencost2.htm
Inspire!
Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site: Take a Walk Through Time and explore 185 million years of earth history along 95 miles of spectacular coastline www.jurassiccoast.com/index.jsp
Don't miss Rocky's Time Machine Game and the Learners section with lesson plans at http://www.swgfl.org.uk/jurassic/
INSET group training events for teachers are also available.
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Osmington and Ringstead
Some places along our coast have never been especially important in terms of the seaside. They are often small isolated hamlets. Osmington village itself lies well back from the coast. In fact, there are very few villages between Weymouth and Swanage which are located at the coast. There are two hamlets in this parish which are at the coast, Osmington Mills and Ringstead. The stream at Osmington Mills runs steeply to the sea and was a good site for a mill. Today most visitors to Osmington and the coast to the east at Ringstead who are looking for a beach will find it at Ringstead. This small group of houses grew up during the twentieth century, but there had originally been a village here until the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Quite why it was abandoned is not clear, but it is often assumed to be related to the spread of the plague. The arrival of the Black Death in 1348 on a Gascon ship at Melcombe provides an historical example of how disease can spread. Other factors which may have contributed to abandonment of villages during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries include:
- falling population not resulting from the plague
- changes in farming practices, including changes in land holding
- growth of sheep farming
- climatic variability and
- soil erosion and reduced soil fertility
Although we are using Osmington as the exemplar parish, parts of the human settlements and the later use of the coast at Ringstead spread into the adjacent parish, Owermoigne. The boundary between Osmington and Owermoigne parishes divides modern Ringstead. Learning Package Theme 2, Topic 1, Origins of Growth and Settlement provides background to historical foundations of present day parishes and their boundaries.
OSMINGTON: USING IMAGES TO INTERPRET LANDSCAPES AND COMMUNITIES
Photographs from different dates show how the coast has changed both physically and in the way in which it is used.
The following images are all of the area of Ringstead, in the eastern part of Osmington parish. The high headland in the background is White Nothe.
The first image is dated 1910, and has a catalogue number (1675) in the bottom left-hand corner. There is no information to describe exactly where the buildings in the foreground are. However, at the beginning of the twentieth century the only buildings were a Methodist chapel and a couple of cottages and so it is likely that this is in the middle of Ringstead Bay between two small headlands. The headland in the middle ground has no buildings on it. On the beach there are items of equipment used by the local fishermen. The position of the strandline running along the middle of the beach marks the position of the most recent high tides. The beach is wide and high enough to protect the cliffs from the waves' attack. The cliffs are grassed, not bare rock.
This photograph was also taken in 1910 – catalogue number 1673. It is a closer view of the previous one. What has changed? Are the same people visible? Would people be doing the same thing today? This might form the beginning of a story or a poem. What happened next?
We don't know what happened next because there are wide gaps in time between the photographs. This one is taken in 1952. The cottage we saw in 1910 was on the slopes just to the east of the rocky outcrops in the middle of the photograph. Apart from the changed position of the photographer, there are several other differences. The tide is lower and there appear to be buildings on the low headland. There is a barbed wire fence in the foreground (when was barbed wire invented?). There is a large object on the beach. It is part of a wreck. You can find this image at: http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/jpg600/dcm_pht_07863d3.jpg
Inspire!
Handle real museum objects! Workshops are offered by the Dorset County Museum on the Romans, Victorians, Geology, Literature and special exhibitions, and children are often given the opportunity to handle Museum objects. Visit the Jurassic Coast Gallery to find out about fossils, land forms and useful stone along the East Devon and Dorset coast. Worksheets on a wide range of subjects are also available. http://www.dorsetcountymuseum.org/schools.htm
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Wrecks were common here, usually because ships which were in trouble came into the shelter of Weymouth Bay, but sometimes were then washed ashore. Remnants of several can be seen today, but there are very few photographs of them. One example is the tanker 'British Inventor' that was attacked in convoy off St Aldhelm's Head on the 13th June 1940. On the 30th June 1940 the stern part of the wreck was towed towards Ringstead. Later that year it was towed to Portland and moored to a buoy. The fore part was sunk at position 50.35' 20"N 02 18' 30"E
How the history of a place may be traced through the patterns of land ownership
The image below shows a small part of the coast at Osmington taken from the Tithe Map. The whole coast can be viewed in the Interactive Map section of the DCDA.
Extract from the Tithe Map for Osmington Parish
This small part of the Tithe Map includes five landholdings. Holding 31 is shown in the Tithe Apportionment (go to Interactive Maps and open Tithe Apportionments) and described as Beach. Its use was Pasture. It is uncommon for beaches to be owned by individual landholders. If you look at the other maps and aerial photographs of this area, you will see that in fact the area described as Beach is part of the cliff. So be careful in using these sources to check the descriptions given by the original map makers.
For each parish, there was a Tithe Apportionment which was the basis for calculating the tithe (or tax). Each landholding is individually numbered on the map and the Apportionment lists details of the plot as shown below. The areas of the holdings are given in acres, roods and square poles: a rood being one quarter acre which equals 40 square poles. There is a good opportunity here to ask pupils to recalculate the old measures to metric units.
One acre = 0.4049 hectare = 4048 square metres. So a rood equals 1014 sq m and one square pole = 25.35 sq m
Area was also measured on later maps in square miles, acres, square chains and square yards with
1 square mile = 640 acres = 259.136 hectares or 2.59 sq km
1 acre = 10 sq chains 1sq chain = 484 sq yards
1 pole (or rod) = 5.5 yards = 5.025 m 1 furlong = 220 yards
1 statute (or land) mile = 1760 yards or 5280 feet, but a nautical (or sea) mile = 6080 feet or 10 cables (1 cable being 608 feet)
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Owners |
Occupiers |
Description of lands & premises |
Cultivation |
Measure |
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Reverend George
PICKARD |
Reverend George
PICKARD |
East Plantation |
Plantation |
2 acres |
1 rood |
20 sq poles |
| 30 |
Reverend George
PICKARD |
William MAYO |
Great Meadow |
Meadow |
17 |
1 |
- |
| 31 |
Reverend George
PICKARD |
William MAYO |
Beach |
Pasture |
1 |
- |
35 |
| 15 |
Lady Jane St.
John MILDMAY |
Richard ANDREWS |
Higher Mead |
Meadow |
17 |
2 |
- |
| 16 |
Lady Jane St.
John MILDMAY |
Richard ANDREWS |
Lower Mead |
Meadow |
14 |
- |
- |
So we know that these five holdings were owned by two people, with three occupiers (one of whom was the owner – this holding was used for Plantation). Three holdings were Meadow and one was Pasture. Landholding 29 had an area of 2 acres, 1 rood and 20 square perches: 0.9617 hectares.
Places in war and peace
Invasion, whether by disease or by humans, was never far from the landscape of the coastal villages. There is ample evidence of this in Osmington and Ringstead, although many of the structures have disappeared.
Through much of the human history of Dorset, there is a recurrent threat of invasion. Life on the land as well as at sea was affected. So for example, in September 1796 when war with France was anticipated,
- "A return to be made by the Farmers residing in the several parishes on the Sea Coast of the County of Dorset from Waymouth to Chaldon who are requested as early as possible to fix on proper places for driving there (sic) stock to, in case any Invasion of our Coast should be attempted, the situation of several places to be fixed on, is recommended to be north of a supposed line from Tinkleton to Bockington and from thence to Dorchester."
Spellings and uses of words change over time or sometimes the documents simply include mistakes. "Returns" today would be the answers to a questionnaire to be returned to the authorities.
The Dorset County Archives include an example of these returns.
- "A copy of a Return to fix a place to drive the Stock in case of an invasion of our coast should be attempted. 24th September 1796."
The table below summarises the return, which requested information about the area under specific crops, the numbers of animals (referred to generically as 'cattle') and the availability of people to help move stock away from the coast where they would be most at risk.
| Name of Farmer | Names of Estates | Parishes in
which they lie | Miles distant from the sea | Numbers of cattle |
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| James Wood | Poxwell and Middle Ringstead | Poxwell & Osmington | One mile & a half | Horses 14
Cows 46
Sheep 875 |
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| Number of acres of | |
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| Wheat | Barley | Oats | Beans | Pease | Hemp | Flax | Hay |
| 65 72 | 35 0 | 2 0 | 0 95 |
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| No of servants that can be mounted on horseback to assist in driving stock | No of servants on foot that can be furnished with pick-axes and shovels | Names of places fixed to be driven to in case of necessity | |
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| 7 | 3 | Kingston near Dorchester | |
So we learn that this estate in 1796 had 269 acres (109 hectares) of crops (including hay), and was mainly grazing sheep. Moreover, in the event of invasion, the farm stock would be moved further inland. It is not clear what would happen about the crops.
The farmer in 1796 was James Wood. 43 years later at the time of the Tithe Map in 1839, his name is not recorded. However, Robert Serrell Wood and Edward Atkyns Wood held large parts of Osmington parish, but no land in Poxwell parish. In fact 301 acres was held in pasture and 409 acres in arable.
Headlands were often the site for coastguard cottages from which it was possible to maintain an outlook over the sea. The buildings which are seen on top of the headland of White Nothe to the east of Ringstead date from the nineteenth century. A photograph entitled "Osmington waterfall coastguard station n/r Weymouth" shows the coast at the same location as the tithe map extract above. The photograph was taken in 1910 and is looking eastwards towards Bran Point. It is not at all obvious where the coastguard station is. This image is at
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/jpg600/dcm_pht_07856d3.jpg
Much later, during the Second World War, coastal areas were also evacuated especially in south-east England. Coastal areas were the sites of defensive structures such as pillboxes. This one was on the beach by 1968 but had gradually slid from the cliff top as landslides carried it down to the beach. The beach has then been eroded so that it stands forlornly in the middle of the beach. Today (2006) there are few remnants to be seen. Can it be seen on the 1947 aerial photograph? Who was on guard in it? We don’t know, but a story could be based on it. It certainly tells us something about erosion and landsliding here.
In the 20th century, the parish was the site of one of Chain Home High and Chain Home Low radar stations (RAF Ringstead). For more information go to Learning Packages (Theme 2 Settlements and Society Topic 5 Dorset and the Development of Radar which include recorded interviews with some of the original scientists working on radar). The shadows of the tall masts can be seen on the aerial photographs of the 1940s (both in the Image Library and in the Interactive Maps). This radar station became operational in 1940 and remained in service until 1956. Some of the buildings are found between Ringstead and Osmington Mills. They can be seen on the aerial photograph below which was taken by the RAF in 1947.
If you look carefully at this image you can see the shadows of the tall vertical masts lying across the fields. The shadows indicate that the photograph was taken during the afternoon. The area in blue is where many of the radar station buildings were sited.
How the landscape can be changed by particular applications of science and technology
In the 1960s, the parish was controversially the site of the Tropospheric Scatter System station operated by the United States Air Force as part of its communications link from the United Kingdom to its nuclear strike force based in Spain. At this time, communications satellites had not been put into space around the earth. The aerials (see image below) were 50 m high. The British Air Ministry was challenged in the courts because it bought the land by compulsory purchase for American defence purposes. Despite this the TSS station was built. The station was closed down in 1970 and dismantled in 1974.
If you look closely at the 1970s aerial photographs (see the colour image below), just west of Ringstead village itself, you will see several rectangular ridges. These mark the bases of the Tropospheric Scatter System masts. But they also lie over and between ridges left much earlier by the deserted village of Ringstead. Walkers along the cliff top path can see these in the fields.
Radar changed the landscape with the erection of masts. These were removed after World War 2, but today there are many other masts (e.g. for mobiles). Children could discuss the impact/controversy that this causes.
Another development which has no impact on the landscape was the invention of SONAR (Sound Navigation and Ranging). It allows us to understand undersea landscapes (See Theme 1 Topics 4 Dorset's Underwater World and Theme 1 Topic 5 Visualising the Seabed).
Inspire!
Find out about "There's a lobster in my classroom" and the Treasure Chest that gives children a real understanding of the local marine environment and the lives of fishermen. Other educational opportunities linked to the Durlston Marine Project and Park in Swanage, are also available at www.durlstonmarineproject.co.uk and www.durlston.co.uk |
How places disappear as well as grow
Comparing maps of different dates can show how places have grown and changed. Comparing the Tithe maps with the First Edition of the Ordnance Survey Six Inches to One Mile maps of the 1880s and with the modern Ordnance Survey maps, shows that over the last two hundred years, both Ringstead and Osmington have grown. Most of the field boundaries are the same, but the settlements are very different. Imagine the changes at Ringstead from just a few farms at the beginning of the nineteenth century, then the arrival of a Methodist Chapel and a few cottages by the shore. Little changed, apart from a few more cottages, until the 1940s when the RAF arrived and the radar station was built. Then the RAF left and the United States Air Force arrived. What impacts did this have on local life? We cannot tell from the photographs here, but in other places, such as the County Archives and newspapers, there is a lot more information about how village life changed.
This Ordnance Survey map is dated 1903 and in common with all the maps at this scale (1:10560: 6 inches to 1 statute mile) shows the field boundaries.
This map is the same sheet but in this case has been annotated by an unknown surveyor with the use of each field. The bottom right hand corner is inscribed "Kathleen C.C. Flat, Osmington C.E. School, Weymouth, Dorset". We do not know when this was written and also do not know when the details were added to the fields. The bottom left hand corner gives the survey and revision dates of this sheet.
Vertical aerial photograph showing the coastline from Osmington Mills to the eastern end of Ringstead Bay.
Compare the field patterns with the maps above |
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By the time this vertical aerial photograph was taken in the 1970s, the radar installations had been removed leaving only a few lumps and ridges in the ground. The fields have changed little, but at the eastern end of Ringstead, a caravan park is beginning to grow on the cliff top.
Links to global World Heritage Site issues which exist on the local coast
The Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site ("The Jurassic Coast") includes the coastline at Osmington and Ringstead. All World Heritage Sites are required to have management plans and the National Government has to be able to show that the Site is not at risk from damage by developments such as tourism. There is a management plan for the Jurassic Coast. Questions posed by the information in the DCDA about Osmington and Ringstead include, for example, the issues of land ownership, responsibility for management of the World Heritage Site, the involvement of both residents and visitors and the effects of natural erosion. Other World Heritage Sites have similar concerns. http://www.swgfl.org.uk/jurassic/opencost2.htm
There is much more to find out about the images in this parish as well as from the maps in the Interactive Maps section.
Keywords and images
If you use the search term 'Osmington' you will find 145 images. Each is numbered individually. In this section, we have classified those images into clusters relevant to a particular area (physical or otherwise) of study.
The numbering system is not significant, just derived from the sequence on the results page following a search, so 1-145 are the results that came up under the search for 'Osmington'.
Footnotes have been added to provide guidance or additional interpretative information about specific images.
| Cluster | No. |
Jpeg |
Date |
Comment |
| Whole area maps | 62 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_map_01365d3.jpg | 1888 |
No. 61 & 62 = OS Weymouth Bay, Preston, Osmington |
| 61 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_map_01318d3.jpg | 1930 |
| 65 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_map_01363d3.jpg | 1888 |
No. 64 & 65 = OS Osmington, Ringstead Bay. |
| 64 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_map_01319d3.jpg | 1903 |
No. 64 & 57 same but have different stamping and lettering on the fields – would be interesting to be able to see the detail and look at what is being shown by the maps/the annotations that would indicate specific purpose that map was used for in this instance. |
| 57 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_map_02304d3.jpg | 1903 |
| Osmington Village | 85 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07894d3.jpg | None | 12, 15, 85, 111, 112, 114 and 122 |
| 12 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07889d3.jpg | None | Village street from almost identical viewpoints between ?-1985. Need to look at details like telegraph pole/road surface/car/peoples clothes to get any sense of date. |
| 111 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07890d3.jpg | None |
| 113 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07895d3.jpg | None |
| 114 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07896d3.jpg | None |
| 15 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07904d3.jpg | 1958 |
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| 130 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07921d3.jpg | 1949-60 |
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| 122 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07908d3.jpg | 1985 |
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| 14 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07854d3.jpg | 1910 |
Looks like a wood interwoven with houses |
| 89 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07858d3.jpg | None |
Orchard in Osmington, may partially explain impression given by image above |
| 19 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07888d3.jpg | None |
Line drawing Beehive cottage. |
| Aerial Photos | 87 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07851d3.jpg | None |
Constable painting, so between 1776-1837 |
| 86 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07850d3.jpg | None |
Street view includes people. |
| 16 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07853d3.jpg | 1910 |
Osmington |
| 67 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_02481d3.jpg | 1946 |
Osmington |
| 66 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_02480d3.jpg | 1946 |
Orientation of image different to others |
| 71 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_02496d3.jpg | 1946 |
Osmington, Preston in background |
| 32 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_01462d3.jpg | 1971 |
|
| Osmington Mills | 23 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07848d3.jpg | 1891 |
O.M. village from almost identical viewpoints between 1891-1999. Abiding contrast in housing |
| 2 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07859d3.jpg | None |
| 107 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07882d3.jpg | 1932 |
Some changes, notably 'lobster teas' building indicating growth tourism/leisure, and 1999 house design/materials. Enduringly rural landscape backing. |
| 10 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07892d3.jpg | 1956 |
| 127 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07918d3.jpg | 1999 |
| 11 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07906d3.jpg | 1929-40 |
|
| 1 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07867d3.jpg | 1967 |
|
| 8 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07868d3.jpg | None |
|
| 85 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07849d3.jpg | 1898 |
Different views of the village & environs. |
| 6 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07852d3.jpg | 1910 |
Almost same view as no. 85. |
| 9 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07891d3.jpg | 1956 |
|
| Aerial Photos | 70 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_02479d3.jpg | 1946 |
(No. 139 shows strip lynchets especially clearly). |
| 141 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_16011d3.jpg | 1946 |
All great re settlement/landscape features. |
| 142 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_16012d3.jpg | 1946 |
"Lynchets" are terraces formed by ancient |
| 139 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_15680d3.jpg | 1972 |
ploughing and cultivation |
| 140 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_15681d3.jpg | 1972 |
|
| 30 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_00504d3.jpg | 1997 |
|
| 31 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_00505d3.jpg | 1997 |
Nos 30-32 colour images, July |
| 33 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_aps_00506d3.jpg | 1997 |
|
| Interactive Map Section | |
Zoom in on Osmington Mills area until text is legible,
OS map 1888. | 1888 |
Compare to present OS map |
| Ringstead | 49 |
www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_art_01822d3.jpg | 1901 |
Cottage at coast, boat, thatch, stone and timber |
| White Nothe | 90
|
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07860d3.jpg
|
1952 |
'Whitenose'. Tide at different stages nos. 91, 92 and 93. |
| 91 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07861d3.jpg |
1952 |
| 92 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07862d3.jpg |
1952 |
| 93 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07863d3.jpg |
1952 |
Local character/
identity |
123 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07914d3.jpg |
1999 |
Smuggler's Inn, fields, cows grazing.
See also no.s 19-89, Osmington section above
|
| Occupations |
89 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07858d3.jpg |
none |
Orchard.
See also ships & boats, agriculture.
|
People/
society |
49 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_art_01822d3.jpg |
1901 |
Although no people in engraving image is evocative of lifestyle – may or may not present the reality accurately? |
| 16 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07853d3.jpg |
1910 |
Two people on an Osmington street. |
| 95 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07870d3.jpg |
1957 |
People, lobster pots & boat. |
| 98 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07873d3.jpg |
none |
Old cottage and church with man in vegetable. |
| 22 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07913d3.jpg |
1919-
1940 |
garden clearly from earlier times...
South Dorset Fox Hunt at White Horse Hill
|
| Land use
Also see agriculture.
|
89 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07858d3.jpg |
None |
Orchard. |
| 4 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07910d3.jpg |
1919-
1940 |
Holworth area. Compare to modern OS map for further information and current land info; ownership & access interest. |
| 24 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07911d3.jpg |
ditto |
View across Upton area can readily be related to modern OS map, near parish boundary.
See also all of the aerial photos. |
| 25 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07912d3.jpg |
ditto |
| 123 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07914d3.jpg |
1999 |
Smuggler's Inn foreground, grazing cows background. |
| Ships and boats |
49 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_art_01822d3.jpg |
1901 |
Sketch coastal buildings/boat
|
| 13 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07856d3.jpg |
1910 |
Osmington waterfall & coastguard station |
| 95 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07870d3.jpg |
1957 |
Small & large rowing boat |
| 128 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07919d3.jpg
|
1999 |
Osmington Mills slipway |
| 5 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07869d3.jpg |
None |
Steam & sail – some heading towards Weymouth? |
| Marine species |
| Fossils |
51 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_14984d3.jpg |
|
All found in Osmington area, now in Dorset County Museum. |
| 48 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15219d3.jpg
|
| 55 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15277d3.jpg
|
| 75 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15279d3.jpg |
| 47 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15280d3.jpg
|
| 58 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15285d3.jpg
|
| 46 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15341d3.jpg
|
| 53 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15344d3.jpg |
| 52 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15345d3.jpg
|
| 73 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15346d3.jpg
|
| 72 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15347d3.jpg
|
| 34 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15348d3.jpg
|
| 45 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15350d3.jpg
|
| 54 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15354d3.jpg
|
| 74 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_obj_15355d3.jpg
|
| Buildings |
49 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_art_01822d3.jpg |
1901 |
No. 49 shows characteristic stone/thatch
but also more wood use than many images–
proximity/availability of local woodland
/driftwood? |
| 68 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07865d3.jpg |
None
|
Farmhouse near Osmington |
| 98 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07873d3.jpg |
None |
Church and cottage with vegetable garden |
| 104 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07879d3.jpg |
1930-
1945 |
Ruins of manor house/graveyard. |
| 105 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07880d3.jpg |
1912 |
Atypical, building with extensive balcony, well-kept lawns/gardens, pristine thatch. |
| 106 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07881d3.jpg |
1937 |
Large, solid farmhouse, Southdown Farm Ringstead Bay. |
| 19 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07888d3.jpg |
None |
Line drawing Beehive Cottage, Osmington.
Also see Osmington & Osm. Mills village street images.
Also see White Horse cluster for single farm buildings.
|
| 116 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07898d3.jpg |
1989 |
The history of Charity Farm, highly renovated in this image, is also an evocative social history. (Online information at eg www.osmington.info/
hist.htm) |
| 118 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07900d3.jpg |
1989 |
East Farm |
| 119 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07901d3.jpg |
1989 |
East Farm |
| 123 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07914d3.jpg |
1999 |
Smuggler’s Inn |
| 127 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07918d3.jpg |
1999 |
Modern building style, house at Osmington Mills, contrasts with cottages elsewhere |
| Churches |
50 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_art_01821d3.jpg |
None |
Osmington church |
| 97 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07872d3.jpg |
None |
Osmington church |
| 98 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07873d3.jpg |
None |
|
| 99 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07874d3.jpg |
1900-
1925 |
Creator Rev. W.M. Barnes is contributor of other undated images – so date range attached to no. 99 may offer clue for dating these. |
| 100 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07875d3.jpg |
1900-
1925 |
|
| 101 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07876d3.jpg |
None |
|
| 102 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07877d3.jpg |
1938-
1939 |
|
| 103 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07878d3.jpg |
1938-
1939 |
Door detail. Some might insist ghost is present! |
| 117 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07899d3.jpg |
1989 |
|
| 121 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07907d3.jpg |
1992 |
Osmington church interior |
| The White Horse |
94 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07864d3.jpg |
1891 |
|
| 23 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07893d3.jpg |
1910 |
|
| 68 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07865d3.jpg |
None |
Prof. Ronald Good so may be 1950s. |
| 26 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07866d3.jpg |
None |
|
| 3 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07883d3.jpg |
None |
|
| 108 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07884d3.jpg |
None |
No date but discernibly 'modern' outbuildings |
| 109 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images
/jpg600/dcm_pht_07885d3.jpg |
None |
|
| 110 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07886d3.jpg |
None |
|
| 28 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07909d3.jpg |
None |
|
| 120 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07902d3.jpg |
1964 |
|
| 27 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07903d3.jpg |
1950 |
|
| 20 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07887d3.jpg |
None |
Buildings suggest early image |
| 15 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07904d3.jpg |
1958 |
Collage postcard includes views Osmington village / coast |
| 115 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07897d3.jpg |
1989 |
Long landscape view |
| 'Burning Cliff' |
21 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_art_01894d3.jpg |
None |
'The Holworth' engraving |
| Boundaries |
|
The White Horse cluster is highly informative.
All of the aerial photos also |
| Infastructure |
107 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07882d3.jpg |
1932 |
Early popular cars, also bikes. Development for tourism – see also other Osm. Mills images for progression. |
| 112 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07894d3.jpg |
None |
All of the aerial photos also |
| Leisure & Tourism |
2 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07859d3.jpg |
None |
Postcard. Look also at nos. 83, 107, 10, 127. |
| 95 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07870d3.jpg |
1957 |
People & lobster pots in the sea. |
| 123 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07914d3.jpg |
1999 |
123 & 124 Smuggler's Inn. Theme of retention of local character. |
| 124 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07915d3.jpg |
1999 |
| Development |
107 |
|
|
All of the aerial photos also |
Agriculture
|
10 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07892d3.jpg |
1956 |
Cows grazing near village |
| 5 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07869d3.jpg |
None |
Watercolour postcard, earlier than no.10? Cows grazing near village. |
| 106 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07881d3.jpg |
1937 |
Southdown Farm building, Ringstead Bay.
All of the aerial photos also. The White Horse cluster succinctly shows features of the farmed landscape in that area, and little land use change in the period of record. |
| Trees and woodland |
89 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07858d3.jpg |
None |
Orchard |
| 14 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07854d3.jpg |
1910 |
Looks like a wood interwoven with houses! |
| 24 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07911d3.jpg |
1919-
1940 |
Upton area |
| 25 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07912d3.jpg |
ditto |
See also all of the aerial photos |
| Waterfall |
13 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07856d3.jpg |
1910 |
|
| 88 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07857d3.jpg |
None |
|
| George III |
|
The White Horse images |
| Coast |
1 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07867d3.jpg |
1967 |
Osm. Mills, looking across to Portland, ship/boats. |
8
|
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07868d3.jpg |
None |
Osmington Mills, cliff processes. |
| 5 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07869d3.jpg |
None |
Steam and sail ships, cliff processes. |
| 95 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07870d3.jpg |
1957 |
|
| 96 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07871d3.jpg |
None |
Redcliff Point in distance; western coastal boundary of Osmington parish. |
| 18 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07905d3.jpg |
1930s |
Redcliff Bay |
| 11 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07906d3.jpg |
1930s |
Osmington Mills and westwards |
| 125 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07916d3.jpg |
1999 |
Osmington Mills cliff with slip, looking west |
| 126 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07917d3.jpg |
1999 |
Osmington Mills coast, looking east |
| 128 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07919d3.jpg |
1999 |
Osmington Mills slipway. |
| 129 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07920d3.jpg |
1999 |
Osmington Mills beach from cliff-top |
| 17 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_11744d3.jpg |
1895-
1905 |
Portland Bill from Osmington Mills |
| 5 |
http://www.dcda.org.uk/images/
jpg600/dcm_pht_07869d3.jpg |
None |
Watercolour postcard showing steam/sail boats in sea, cliffs, coastal grazing and village. |
INTERPRETATION NOTES FOR ABOVE IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS
1 and 2. OS maps of Dorset at Dorset County Museum (A2 size sheets). Some detail not decipherable online, but could guess at from available 'clues' (including prior learning) and compare on a subsequent visit to museum original (if visit not possible maybe A2 size copy could be made available?). But more general changes can be seen e.g. 61) and 62) are the same sheet/area 27 years apart, issues raised include those to do with interpretation, the necessity for common standards to enable fair comparison, the usefulness of having a decipherable key, the need to question whether change has occurred or whether an apparent change is actually simply that a feature is thought to be important when one map (or other record) is made but not when another is made – i.e. omission does not necessarily mean non-existence. Specific issues that arise include:
- Later sheet includes contour lines (in red) whereas 1888 does not, but does have several red lines, which may be boundary lines but are clearly not contour lines
- 1888 shows water in wooded/scrub/swamp(?)by blueness (also along coastline); perhaps for printing practicality/economy colour is not shown on 1930 map but this does leave a query about whether water still is present in these channels
- Apparently settlement at Weymouth has grown considerably, whilst that at Preston and Osmington is little changed in extent – so what more can be found out about the changes, what has happened and why?
- The coastline appears unchanged (some changes may be apparent on viewing originals?)
Some of the same issues apply nos. 64 & 65 though there is barely any time difference.
3. Listed under place names
4. As the creator of no. 50 is Moule, image must be late 19th/early 20th century? Looking at creators of images can take many interesting turns and draws in a wide circle of information. e.g.: It is also interesting to note that H.J.Moule became the Curator of Dorset County Museum at Dorchester owing to his lifelong fascination with archaeology. Both Hardy and the Moule family also knew the Rev. William Barnes, the Dorset poet and philologist, who actually defined the term 'ooser' in his 'Glossary of the Dorset Dialect' of 1863. After Barnes's death, Hardy described him as 'probably the most interesting link between present and past forms of rural life that England possessed'. Of course, the statement could equally well refer to Thomas Hardy himself. Both authors' many writings have, to a great extent, preserved detailed knowledge of, and insight into, rural life for future generations to become fascinated about. The three men, Thomas Hardy, Henry Joseph Moule and Rev William Barnes, were all important and highly regarded figures of nineteenth century Dorset. Some of the sources (contributor/creator) include Professor Ronald Good, Reverend W.M Barnes and Reverend Miles Barnes; where dates are absent from images then a rough estimate can be made by checking what dates they were actively producing other material on the archive (i.e. searching on their name as contributor/creator) or finding out their 'born and died' dates.
Interesting to note occupation etc of originators - the less well-off might have less time and money to e.g. take photos/produce artwork so works may represent a limited viewpoint. Also leads on to Hardy and issues regarding fictional work v. factual to get ideas about a place at a variety of levels. Even more pertinent is http://www.dorsetcountymuseum.org/awritersdorset.htm and http://www.dorsetcountymuseum.org/art.htm - the creator route of image investigation leads to a history of the arts in the local area and on to a bigger picture of the arts at county, regional, national and even international level if the leads from local to larger area are followed.
5. Use of stone/thatch/local materials.
6. Clear snapshot of facilities/amenities changing over time as changes in society, technology, occupation, leisure time, transport.
OS 1888 1st Ed look at Osmington Mills area
http://map.dcda.org.uk/dcda/display.php?zoom_level=8
- 'Picnic Inn'
- Coastguard Station
- Flagstaff
Whereas OS map 2002 Explorer 1:25000 (sheet OL15) shows:
- a petrol station
- public conveniences
- telephone box in that area
- a caravan and camping site a little distance to the north
(Some of these may have changed since then)
Looking at a slightly larger area, comparing the 1970s aerial with 1888 OS (http://map.dcda.org.uk/dcda/display.php?m_view=AP70&) there have been some changes which would be interesting but the main impression that hits you is that very little has apparently changed in nearly a century. Comparing the 1970s and 1940s aerial photographs (at a slightly larger scale http://map.dcda.org.uk/dcda/display.php?zoom_level=8&x=373144&y=82410)
the main visible difference is the 'sudden' appearance of a multitude of caravans – moving west much larger changes in settlement (growth) can be seen, especially once you reach Preston
(http://map.dcda.org.uk/dcda/display.php?zoom_level=7)
outside Osmington parish, where growth has radiated out from the earlier settlement and along the tracks/roads.
Moving east using OS 1888 and 1970s aerial photos again
http://map.dcda.org.uk/dcda/display.php?m_view=AP70&
to just east of Bran Point woodland patterns of change – both growth and disappearance – are clear. This area also shows how the comparison of an earlier map with aerial photos can explain marks that appear in the aerial photos – as former boundary features or tracks/paths or 'gaps' where buildings have disappeared. These are related to the deserted village and the radar station.
However, this is obviously looking at visual evidence from afar, which does not confirm use of buildings or more detailed information about land use, or least of all in some ways, local lifestyles. Whereas at one time mapping may (though not always) have provided more certainty, there may be such diversity now that appearances may deceive: the traditional cottage that is actually a holiday home rather than housing a local inhabitant who has inherited from their family, the field whose main use now is for tents, the farm buildings that now house an internet business etc.
7. Engraving should be at some time after 1826, according to sites below
Could be used as example for how research can quickly lead on from very little initial information (in this case an undated, unattributed etching) to unearth a wealth of interesting information across several subject areas e.g.:
Title: 'The Holworth' not fruitful, but by putting 'Burning Cliff' in search engine led on to:
Geological/scientific explanation of event and history including contemporary reports at Southampton School of Ocean & Earth Sciences at
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/kimfire.htm#burncliff with information about similar information elsewhere.
Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society research website gives references to contemporary articles at
http://www.dor-mus.demon.co.uk/gbibanon18.html
Both of these sites have further links and information that lead deeper into the subject
8. 64 & 57. Same but have different stamping and lettering on the fields – would be interesting to be able to see the detail to look at what is being shown by the annotations that would indicate specific purpose that map was used for in this instance.
9. Sea is at the bottom of this image - raises issue of differing perceptions due to differing perspectives (could link to question of why the world is portrayed with the North Pole at top).
10. Due to people's interest in collecting, there is lots of information on the internet and elsewhere about postcard companies and the people who supplied them with images. There are different ways in which the use of postcards as an historical resource can be assessed or examined. For example, on one hand there is the question of how representative of an area the postcards are, on the other there is the fact that they were initially an inexpensive means of communicating information about an area and potentially stimulating growth.
Inspire!
Explore the treasures held in your local Record Office. Dorset History Centre has a collection of postcards and quaint historic tourist guides www.dorsetforyou.com/archives |
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