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Blandford originated at a fording point over the River Stour. Blandford Forum (/ ˈ b l æ n f ər d / BLAN-fərd) is a market town in Dorset, England, on the River Stour, 13 miles (21 km) north-west of Poole.
The Town Hall, Blandford Forum Blandford Forum, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. John (ca 1688–1770) and William Bastard (ca 1689–1766) were British surveyor-architects, and civic dignitaries [1] of the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset. [2] John and William generally worked together and are known as the "Bastard brothers".
The Pump House, Blandford Forum, Dorset, England, is an 18th-century water source erected in 1760 in commemoration of a fire which almost destroyed the town in 1731. It was designed and paid for by John Bastard who, with his brother William, worked as builders and architects and were largely responsible for the town's reconstruction.
An Up freight train at Blandford Forum station in 1963. Originally part of the Dorset Central Railway, the line to Blandford opened on 1 November 1860 to a station at Blandford St Mary, to the south of the River Stour. [1] The Dorset Central merged with the Somerset Central Railway in 1862 and a new extension connecting the two railways was built.
Blandford Forum Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The 18th-century structure, which was the meeting place of Blandford Forum Borough Council, is a Grade I listed building .
The earliest prominent ancestor of his family was John Pitt (died 1602) a mercer from Blandford Forum and Clerk of the Exchequer who received a grant of arms, [6] from whose younger son, Thomas Pitt of Blandford (father of Rev. John Pitt), the Pitts of Boconnoc were descended.
The Royal Signals Museum is a military museum based at Blandford Camp in the civil parish of Tarrant Monkton, northwest of the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset, England.The museum traces the history of the British Army’s battlefield communications experts from the introduction of the telegraph in the Crimean War to the secretive story of cryptography and cyber warfare.
Alfred Stevens was born on 30 December 1817 at Blandford Forum in Dorset, the son of a decorator and joiner.At the age of ten, he entered his father's workshop as an assistant.