Winterborne Stickland | Then and Now

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Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards from the Barry Cuff Collection meet modern-day reality. Explore the past and present on the same page, and see the evolution of familiar local places. ‘Now’ images by Courtenay Hitchcock

path” (from the old English sticol or stickel, meaning steep) likely refers to the Chalky Path, an ancient trackway leading up the hill from the village. Towards the end of the 19th century, the population of Winterborne Stickland was around 400, and like many Dorset villages it had two Methodist chapels. The Wesleyan chapel (built 1863), is just round the corner from this, the Primitive Methodist chapel (built 1877).

Barry belives that Corner Cottage, the unchanged flint and brick banded cottage on the left of both pictures, was once the village police constable’s house. Between the photographer and The Crown, on the right, is a small thatched outbuilding which clearly made way for the town war memorial after the First World War, just visible on the right of the ‘now’ image.

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