Lost Weymouth
Photographs of the town from the Barry Cuff Collection
Published in February ’22
Boys pose for the photographer beneath the Coronation Arch built on the Esplanade opposite the Royal Hotel for George V’s Coronation in 1911. Celebrations such as this were held across Dorset, and there are postcards of similar arches in Blandford and Dorchester. Weymouth’s cleverly celebrated two events: the first was the Royal Counties Agricultural Show at Lodmoor, followed by the Coronation, when the banners were changed to ‘God Bless our King and Queen’. The galleon is on the borough’s coat-of-arms.
BARRY Cuff started collecting books about Dorset when he was 15 and later added postcards. What he describes as a ‘fifty year addiction’ now includes over 10,000 postcards of Dorset, an invaluable source of local history. A new book, Lost Dorset: The Towns (a companion to a previous volume on the …
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