Dorset’s Tolpuddle blind spot
In this recently discovered article, the last that he wrote before his death in 2011, the ‘unignorable’ Rodney Legg tells how the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ native county was for a hundred years unwilling to acknowledge their place in history
Published in August ’20
The Martyrs’ Statue: six blocks of
Portland stone and a representation
of George Loveless
THE SIX Tolpuddle Martyrs, or Dorchester Unionists as they were called at the time of their trial in March 1834, were James Brine, James Hammett, father and son Thomas and John Standfield (sometimes spelt ‘Stanfield’) and Methodist preacher brothers…
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