Author Archives: Steve Bewers

The last view of Dorset, for some.

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Steve Bewers

©Steve Bewers, March 2025 It has long been the tradition that in rural areas felons and lawbreakers sentenced to death were taken to meet their ends at the very edges of territories for execution. Often these sites were visible from … Continue reading →

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From Peasant Hovels to TV Gold

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Steve Bewers

©Steve Bewers, March 2025 Quietly over the last 275 years or so the village of Milton Abbas has been changing. Built to be the homes of estate workers, who leased them from the estate they all worked on these cottages … Continue reading →

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