Browse Exhibits (8 total)

A short account of the Hawkins family’s emigration from Dorset to Brazil in the 1870s, and their later return to Wallisdown. Drawing on family history and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, the article explores the wider “Brazil movement” that encouraged English agricultural families to seek a new life overseas, often with difficult and disappointing results.

A history of Hinton Wood House, once home to the Talbot family.

An exhibit exploring the lives of the 10 local men who gave their lives for their country through the Second World War.

The story of Henry Dowsey Newman, an inmate at Talbot Manor Home for Boys and his subsequent short life.

The fields on where Bournemouth University now stand hold a suprisingly long history of avation stretching from 1910 until 1944.

A brief history of the Holloway family on Talbot Village.

How Talbot Village has largely been under the radar through the years

The story of the Talbot Village Band