10 May – Bradford on Avon canal trip 13 June – Dorset Queen – Afternoon Tea 1pm – 3.30pm 7 July – Beating the Bounds End July – Fish and Chip Supper cruise 26 August – Shieldhall Trip Sep / Oct Portsmouth – (D-Day etc) May 2025 – Solent City, …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Spring 2024 edition of our magazine. 2024 has started with a rush, we have finally managed to get our five heritage lights back on their plinths at the bottom of Evening Hill (see pages 10- 11). The organisation of Beating of the Sea Bounds on …
All meetings and Talk are at the Con Club (opposite St Georges Church Oakdale Road) Darbys Lane Poole BH15 3EU 7pm for 7:30pm (members of SfP and PMT £3, guests £4) 16th January 2024 — Talk Punching the Tide – Pleasure boats from Bournemouth Pier Peter Lamb 20th …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Winter 2023 edition of our magazine. As it again is the time of year for short afternoons and long nights, we reflect a little on the year that has gone and the year ahead. For the Society we have pressed ahead with two major projects, …
After a long time away the 5 heritage lighting columns at the bottom of Evening Hill which disappeared 5 months ago have been fully refurbished and returned to their rightful place. The columns were erected in 1895 along the sea wall at Whitley Bay, the bay between Evening Hill and …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Autumn edition of our magazine. There has been quite a lot going on. With the Royal British Legion Hall in North Road shutting early we have been forced to move to The Con Club in Darbys Lane to hold our meetings. The first was an …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to this the Summer 2023 edition of the View from Poole and I hope you had a wonderful coronation weekend and didn’t get too wet. Congratulations to Jan Marsh for her work on the unveiling of the Blue Plaque to Louie Dingwall at Sandbanks which is now …
All Society for Poole talks take place at The Con Club, Oakdale, Darbys Lane, Poole BH15 3EU (opposite Oakdale Church) at 7pm for 7:30pm start 20th June 2023 — Talk David Warhurst The history of the Poole – Cherbourg Ferry Service 18th July 2023 — Talk Jack Hawkins …
17th January 2023 — Talk Steve Roberts Dad’s Army – The Home Guard Talk 21st February 2023 — Talk Kevin Patience African Queen …. (The True Story) 21st March 2023 — Talk Christopher Legrand Treasures of Dorset … it’s History, Families, Architecture and Landscape 15th April …
21st June 2022 — Talk Rod Hughes Disaster at Holten Heath 19th July 2022 — Talk Brian Bates When Germans Invaded Dorset 20th September 2022 — Talk Mary Sparks Mapping the Manors 18th October 2022 — Talk Don Nutt Alleyways & Lanes of Old Poole …
