Weymouth Museum

Weymouth Museum Weymouth Pop-Up Museum, located at 39b St Thomas St, is open Monday to Saturday 10 am to 2 pm Weymouth Museum
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HELP PLEASE!To complement our upcoming Football exhibition, we need a table football game similar to the one in the phot...
02/06/2026

HELP PLEASE!
To complement our upcoming Football exhibition, we need a table football game similar to the one in the photo.
Can anyone loan us one please?
Please like and share this post ….thank you

On the first day of Volunteers’ Week,we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supports Weymouth Museum….From th...
01/06/2026

On the first day of Volunteers’ Week,
we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supports Weymouth Museum….
From the volunteers who meet and greet the Popup museum visitors, to those who work tirelessly at the storage facility looking after the collection. Not forgetting our voluntary trustees whose energy is currently focused on returning the museum to Brewer’s Quay….

829 DORCHESTER ROAD WEYMOUTHAn early 20th century photo shows 829 Dorchester Road as the Upwey Bakery owned by E. Gutt, ...
28/05/2026

829 DORCHESTER ROAD WEYMOUTH

An early 20th century photo shows 829 Dorchester Road as the Upwey Bakery owned by E. Gutt, with the delivery van just visible on the far right of the picture.

Upwey was still very much a separate village community at the time and wasn’t incorporated into the Borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis until 1933.

By 1937, Kelly’s Directory records the bakery as being run by Owen William Baker, and it was still operating under his name in 1948 before later becoming a branch of B. Smith, the well-known Weymouth bakery firm based in Abbotsbury Road.

Many former Weymouth Grammar School pupils will probably remember popping in to buy a bag of “stales” for a modest price after school. The building continued its life as a bakery until the 1970s.

A TREAT FOR OMNIBOLOGISTS 🚍This photo shows one of the legendary 6-wheeler buses introduced in 1937 on the Portland rout...
24/05/2026

A TREAT FOR OMNIBOLOGISTS 🚍

This photo shows one of the legendary 6-wheeler buses introduced in 1937 on the Portland route.

Because of the difficulties negotiating Priory Corner, double deck buses could not travel to Tophill. To solve the problem, six single deck buses with space for 44 passengers were specially built using Leyland chassis and Beadle bodywork.

The Dorset Daily Echo commented at the time that the only drawback was their length, with drivers having to prove themselves “expert jugglers at manoeuvring in and out of the frequent traffic jams in Fortuneswell.”

By 1954, when they were withdrawn, each bus had covered more than one million miles.

The writer remembered travelling on one as a small boy to Wyke and watching with fascination as dead insects floated around inside the light shades where the roof had leaked!

Sadly, in 1955 they were moved to Kingsbridge garage where the engines were removed and the rest sold for scrap. One was broken up while others reportedly became chicken houses and farm buildings. One was even rumoured to have been buried in a disused quarry.

Historic vehicle preservation was still very much in the future then. What a pity one or two didn’t survive 🚍

WEYMOUTH MINIATURE RAILWAYOlder readers will remember travelling on the Weymouth Miniature Railway which ran from Westha...
18/05/2026

WEYMOUTH MINIATURE RAILWAY

Older readers will remember travelling on the Weymouth Miniature Railway which ran from Westham Coach Park along the west side of Radipole Lake.

It was operated initially by David Curwen of Marlborough, an expert miniature railway builder who used the line as a testing ground for his locomotives.

The loco in question is “Robin Hood”, modelled loosely on a London and North Eastern Railway A2 class locomotive. Two other locos also ran on the line, successively “Merrie England” and “Black Prince.”

All three locomotives are believed to still be running on other railways. The writer recalls meeting up with “Robin Hood” on a railway at Shepton Mallet in 1980.

The railway had a number of owners and finally closed in 1982. The site is now part of Weymouth Way.

Weymouth Museum will be running a stall at Weymouth Town Council's Community Expo event on Saturday 16 May.We’ll be cele...
14/05/2026

Weymouth Museum will be running a stall at Weymouth Town Council's Community Expo event on Saturday 16 May.

We’ll be celebrating Weymouth’s local history and fossils from the area. If you’ve got any questions about Weymouth’s history, come along and ask the experts. Maureen Attwooll, author of many Weymouth history books, and Richard Samways, archivist, will be on hand to provide answers. Bring along your questions, old photos, family history puzzles, postcards etc and we’ll try and answer them.

Likewise, if you’ve found any fossils locally and would like to know more about them, bring them along and fossil expert, Heather Middleton, will help you discover more.

Don’t forget to visit the Dig Open Day tomorrow
08/05/2026

Don’t forget to visit the Dig Open Day tomorrow

GLOUCESTER STREET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, PARK STREETMany aerial photos taken in the 20th century show the twin spires of...
08/05/2026

GLOUCESTER STREET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, PARK STREET
Many aerial photos taken in the 20th century show the twin spires of Gloucester Street Congregational Church standing out prominently.

It was built between 1862 to 1864 to replace a chapel of 1804 in St Nicholas Street, at a cost of £3,690. It was an extensive site with schoolrooms in a semi-basement.

By 1962 the church was showing signs of cracking and subsidence, as it had been built on reclaimed land. Some work was carried out, but the building was in need of new foundations at a cost of £1m.

The writer remembers attending a Weymouth Grammar School end-of-year service in 1965 and thinking that the walls sloped outwards toward the top!

Prominent among former ministers was Welsh-born Rev Charles Gay, who served from 1947 to 1971 and played a prominent role in the life of the town.

The church closed in 1972 and the congregation moved to Hope Church, which itself closed in February 2026.

The site is now occupied by George Thorne House.

We are very grateful to everyone who popped in to the Pop-up on Saturday with their stories and items. Thank you all.We ...
06/05/2026

We are very grateful to everyone who popped in to the Pop-up on Saturday with their stories and items. Thank you all.
We are still keen to engage with anyone else who might have memories or items pertinent to our football exhibition next month. If you have any Weymouth football club memorabilia that you would be willing to loan or donate please visit the Pop-up museum in St Thomas St Mon - Sat between 11am and 2pm. We’d particularly like to see examples of the various football shirts worn over the years…..

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39b St Thomas Street
Weymouth
DT48EH

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 2pm
Tuesday 10am - 2pm
Wednesday 10am - 2pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm
Friday 10am - 2pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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