THOMAS Hardy wrote of Knollsea (Swanage) in The Hand of Ethelberta, that it was ‘a seaside village lying snug within two headlands as between a finger and thumb’. Its sweep of sandy beach, piers, seaside accommodation and gentle slope down to the sea make it a natural seaside holiday location. The war artist Paul Nash, who spent the years 1935 and 1936 in the town, described Swanage as reminiscent ‘of a dream image where things are so often incongruous and slightly frightening in …
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