Chapelhay

A COMMUNITY is drawing together to remember 'a great old character' who lived in the area for more than 40 years. Jack Palmer, 86, died after a short illness. He had lived in Prospect Place, Chapelhay, since 1973 and brought up his five children there ...

Margaret Lane, 57, lives in Chapelhay and says she is fed up with battling the Dorset Waste Partnership over rubbish building up by her flats. Mrs Lane lives at Chapelhay Heights and says that every fortnight since November she has had to call up DWP ...

They originally belonged to the infant class when the school was in Chapelhay. After the Chapelhay bombings the school was eventually rebuilt in Cross Road, Weymouth and these toys were moved to the new infant school when it opened in 1953.

The Lantern Charity Shop in Weymouth's Chapelhay opened in July 2005. It was set up by Ian and Sue Walton and Pam Fry. The proceeds of the shop have been directly put into the work of The Lantern Trust, which is tucked away on Ranelagh Road.

Brian recalls: "I well remember the dark Sunday night of November 17 1940 when the landmine fell 'twixt Franchise and Chapelhay Streets, and the devastation it caused. "Living in Maycroft Road, we were to some extent shielded from the force of the ...

TODAY we are continuing our series of articles on the bombing which devastated the Chapelhay area of Weymouth in the Second World War. So many of you have got in touch to recall the horrors of that day and its aftermath and we are going to be sharing ...