With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence of the ...

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A building where the author Thomas Hardy trained as an architect has been left a charred wreck after a fire. The blaze on ...

When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought ...

A building where the author Thomas Hardy trained as an architect has been left a charred wreck after a fire. The blaze on ...

About 50 firefighters were called to the blaze, which spread through the Grade II listed building in South Street, Dorchester ...

A café destroyed by fire in the early hours of this morning was a building of major historical importance where Thomas Hardy ...

Firefighters tackling a fire in Dorchester at the site of the historic building where the Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy worked (Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service/PA) PA Media The plaque ...