by Sandy | Sep 9, 2018 | Graves and Graveyards
A few miles East of Dorchester in Dorset is the village of Moreton. The Frampton Arms is next to the train station and is named after the Frampton family who built Moreton House, and for 6 centuries have been the landlords of most of the village. I enjoyed about a...
by Sandy | Sep 5, 2018 | Graves and Graveyards
I am a student studying death, so it was not surprising that during a holiday to Naples in Italy, I found myself drawn to death related tourism. On day one I was already visiting a cemetery! I reached ‘The Cimetero Fontanelle’ via a very exciting taxi journey, the...
by Sandy | Aug 28, 2018 | Graves and Graveyards
Following a diagnosis of osteoarthritis a few years back, my doctor referred me to the Dorset musculoskeletal services which were based at Frederick Treves House in Dorchester. I recognised the name Treves as there is a Treves Road in the town, so I began researching...
by Sandy | Aug 26, 2018 | Graves and Graveyards
This gravestone was for a man who was hanged for a crime he did not commit! Joshua Scamp a gypsy was hanged for the theft of a horse. It was actually his son-in-law who committed the crime. When it became clear that Joshua was, in fact, innocent he became a local...
