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Alan Illingworth examines how Wimborne, as an example of a Dorset town, survived lockdown
Published in September ’20
Part of the roadway in East Street has been ‘stolen’ to create a pavement wide enough to allow social distancing
WE HAVE lived through the weirdest four months of peacetime anyone can remember. Dorset has not been immune to the enormous effect that lockdown has had on the country’s commercial life, so let’s put the retail trade in one representative town in Dorset, Wimborne, under the magnifying glass to see how it was affected by the Covid-19 emergency and how it has been returning to something like normality.
Like so many people, most of Wimborne’s traders found themselves…
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