Welcome to the Talbot Village History Group’s online archive — a growing collection of historical maps, documents, photographs and other materials exploring the history of Talbot Village in Bournemouth.
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.
