Malcolm Smith's Scenes of Verwood
The pictures in this section were taken by myself over a period of time commencing around 1976. The purpose was to record some of the places before they were drastically changed by building development.
I have set out the pictures of the roads in the order as if you were walking along from one end to the other (which is much as they were taken). If you are uncertain of the layout of the roads, the County Red Book for Dorset has a good map of Verwood on page 44. There is also map on the Verwood page of the Dorset County Council website.
A useful contemporary map on which to locate my pictures is the Ordnance Survey sheet SU 00 NE published in 1963 at a scale of 6 inches to one mile.
There are three publications which have a selection of older photographs of the village. These are Verwood Village Days, Images of England - Around Verwood and Village to Town. I make reference in my pages to relevant pictures in these books so that you are able to see how places have changed over the years.
Select your choice from the list below. More will be added soon.
And last of all, for those few of you who have not collected a few Verwood bricks, here are pictures of some. All these came from The Verwood and Gotham Brick and Tile Works at the back of the railway station (Now Albion Way).
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