Blandford Forum,
Dorset
Old Postcard, Blandford Forum, East Street
Blandford Market Place
These two postcards were mailed in August 1951 but appear to be from the 1920s.
Blandford, Salisbury Street
A lovely old postcard of East Street from around 1910. My aunt, May Biddulph,  lived at Lyston House - just out of the
picture on the right.   (
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Blandford Forum, Market Place
The Market Place in a postcard which appears to date from the 1950s.
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An undated Edwardian postcard of the Market Place.
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An undated postcard of Bryanston School.
Postcards of the Past
This postcard of Salisbury Street was mailed in 1919.
Blandford Cottage Hospital
An undated postcard of the Cottage Hospital, Blandford.
Blandford Salisbury Road
Salisbury Road in the early 20th Century.
Blandford Bridge
A 1918 postcard of the Bridge.
Bryanston Lodge
Bryanston Lodge.
A 1922 postcard of Salisbury Street.
Bryanston School
Bryanston.
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Blandford Camp was built during World War I. My father - aged 17 ! - joined the
army in 1918, and somehow found himself at Blandford Camp, attached to the
Royal Flying Corps which was then part of the army before it became the RAF.
He wanted to volunteer to learn to fly, but his sergeant told him not to be a
bloody fool as he would soon get himself killed, so he stayed where he was. He
was on Waterloo Station waiting to go to France in 1918 when the Armistice
was signed, and was thus spared. So I suppose I'm lucky to be around !
Rupert Brooke, the poet, was stationed at
Blandford Camp. He died from a mosquito bite
on his way to Gallipoli in February 1915.
Did You Know.... that George Nesbitt, an early
professional photographer, was born in Blandford in 1848 ?
Blandford, Legion House
Another postcard of Salisbury Street.
Bryanston School is a co-educational
independent boarding school in Blandford.
It was founded in 1928 and  occupies a
palatial country house designed in the late
nineteenth century by Richard Norman
Shaw. It is set in 400 acres and has about
650 pupils and 80 teachers.
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Old Postcard, Blandford Bridge
Blandford Bridge.
West Street, Blandford Forum
West Street.
Salisbury Street, Blandford Forum
Another postcard of Salisbury Street in the early 1900s.
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