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The main road running through the town is the B3082, connecting Blandford Forum to Wimborne Minster. Blandford Forum is around 33 miles (53 kilometres) southwest of junction 1 of the M27 motorway at Cadnam. Buses run from the town to locations including Poole, Bournemouth, Salisbury and Shaftesbury with the primary operator being Wilts & Dorset.
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.
A major fire destroyed the greater part of Blandford, including the old town hall, on 4 June 1731. [5] The local architects and civic leaders, John and William Bastard , decided to take the opportunity to remodel the Market Place, to replace the town hall and the grammar school and to rebuild the Church of St Peter and St Paul. [ 6 ]
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 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. At the age of ten, he entered his father's workshop as an assistant.
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.
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