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MILBORNE MOVIES
DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL REPORT
In Milborne we have 2 events in February:
The new “Dorset Council”
On Friday the 15th Milborne Movies is showing 'The
As I said in an earlier report the new ward of West Post' at 7.30pm; doors and bar open 7.00pm.
Purbeck will include Bere Regis, Bloxworth, Tickets at the door, £3.50.
Bovington, East Burton, Wool, Affpuddle &
Briantspuddle, Moreton, Chaldon Herring, Winfrith, On Friday 22nd, for
East Lulworth, Coombe Keynes and West Lulworth. halfterm, we are
hosting an Artsreach
workshop from 1.30 to
3.30pm. This will be
Dorset History Centre receives £56K
followed by a puppet
grant for Herrison Hospital archive theatre production
from Angel Heart
The Dorset History Centre has received a grant of
over £56,000 from the Wellcome Trust - the UK’s leading medical research Theatre, 4.00 until 5.00pm. Refreshments will be
charity, which will support a year-long project to fully catalogue the Herrison available from 3.30 to 4.00. Tickets for the workshop
are £3.00; for the performance they are £5 for
Hospital (the county asylum) archive. The archive dates from 1832 and is of great children, £6 for adults and £20 for a family (maximum 2
interest to researchers and family historians alike. It will be made available to the adults and 2 under 18s).
general public through the Dorset History Centre website. In addition, the funding
will allow a significant amount of conservation work to take place - cleaning,
repairing and packaging the archive to assist in its long-term preservation. The
archive consists of 300 boxes of material, including thousands of often poignant
individual patient records, as well as a wide range of other material – from the
hospital’s farm to building plans, and even social activities such as the rounders
society.
At its peak, Herrison Hospital was home to nearly 1000 patients and only closed its
doors in 1992. The archive is a fascinating and important resource for medical
and social history and Dorset History Centre has been working closely with
academics from Bournemouth University and the University of Exeter who intend
to use the collection for their research as the project unfolds. It is thought that
some of Herrison’s archives were retained by hospital staff when the institution
closed its doors. These records could add a further fascinating dimension to the
history of the hospital.
Only very recently, Dorset History Centre received some records that had been
rescued by a former employee, whose son brought them in to join the rest of the
archive.
If you know of any records such as these, Dorset History Centre would like to hear
from you. To get in touch: email archives@dorsetcc.gov.uk or call 01305-250550
and ask to speak to an archivist.

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