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Maggott
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Wessex Tea Rooms Dorchester
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Wednesday 11 January 23 18:10 GMT (UK) »
Good evening
I am cataloguing a collection of letters which includes reference to the Wessex Tea Rooms. They were written in 1930s. I wonder if any Dorset expert could let me have the full address (Google gives 2 current addresses, but I realise that these may not the one I need). Also (big ask!) the name of the people running it?
I should be grateful for any help
Maggott
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Re: Wessex Tea Rooms Dorchester
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Comberton
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Wednesday 11 January 23 18:57 GMT (UK) »
1939 Register for that address has Tom F Rawnsley, cafe proprietor
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Married 1937 in Pancras so maybe too late.
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Thursday 12 January 23 07:36 GMT (UK) »
Lots of references to the Dorchester Chess Club at the Wessex Tea Rooms during the 1930s.
Also this from "Secret Hiding Places - The Origins, Histories And Descriptions Of English Secret Hiding Places Used By Priests, Cavaliers, Jacobites & Smugglers" by Granville Squiers
"In an old house on the main street of Dorchester, part of which is now the Wessex Tea Rooms, a curious find was made a few years ago ..."
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=L0J9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT247&lpg=PT247&dq=
Still looking for a proprietor.
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Thursday 12 January 23 07:40 GMT (UK) »
"No 32 High West street Dorchester, shop with residential flat over, near the Kings Arms Hotel, which was offered with vacant possesion was bought in at £1,150."
Friday, Mar. 18, 1938
Publication: Western Gazette
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Thursday 12 January 23 07:45 GMT (UK) »
Of possible interest as a description of the property:
Friday, July 7, 1899
Publication: Western Gazette
Maggott
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Re: Wessex Tea Rooms Dorchester
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Hi Comberton & Maddy
Thank you both for your speedy replies-just what I needed to know. Grateful to you both!
-Best
Maggott
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adding: All possessions were passed down to family, the Durants...
Found something that links the place to some controversial names -including the 1930's BUF movement...
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01t0s/
"chess clubs"...Look about 4/5 down page for some frightening "Verse"...p. 127 also p. 134
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01t0r/
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01t0q/
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