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After Lulworth and its interesting though not exactly beautiful castle, Weymouth comes as something of an anti-climax. It still preserves a little corner to remind the visitor of its antiquity and services to the maritime ascendancy of Britain, but in the main the present town is obviously the outcome of its sudden popularity rather more than a hundred years ago.
No one with any curiosity to see Weymouth in its palmy days - when George III was convalescing in its balmy air - should miss Fanny Burney's thumb-nail sketches of the place and its life in her Diary.
"The preparations of festive loyalty were universal. Not a child could we meet that had no a bandeau round its head, cap, or hat, of ‘God Save The King'; all the bargemen wore it in cockades; and even the bathing-women had it in large coarse girdles round their waists. It is printed in golden letters upon most of the bathing-machines, and in various scrolls and devices it adorns every shop and almost every house in the two towns . . . " "The King bathes, and with great success; a machine follows the Royal one into the sea, filled with fiddlers, who play ‘God Save The King' as His Majesty takes his plunge!"The lady indeed came to the conclusion that:
"the loyalty of all this place is excessive."Only an unintentional comedy is needed to make the scene quite perfect:
"One thing, however, was a little unlucky: when the Mayor and burgesses came with the address, they requested leave to kiss hands: this was graciously accorded: but the Mayor advancing, in a common way, to take the Queen's hand, as he might that of any lady mayoress, Colonel Gwynn, who stood by whispered, ‘You must kneel sir!' He found, however, that he took not notice of this hint, but kissed the Queen's hand erect. As he passed him on his way back, the Colonel said, ‘You should have knelt, sir!' "'Sir, answered the poor mayor, ‘I cannot.'" "' Everybody does, sir.'" "' Sir - I have a wooden leg!'"Since those halcyon days the place has not had much attention from royalty, for all its health-giving properties, but Portland, hard by, certainly cannot grumble of any lack of attention from guests of the State.
Beaches and sea front are crowded in summer, but there is more to Weymouth than the obvious attractions of a summer resort. Above all there is the harbour, with its medley of boats and yachts, the quays where the boats leave for the Channel Islands; and on the fringe the naval Portland Harbour within its huge breakwaters. The neighbouring Isle of Portland, Chesil Bank and the Fleet sternly contrast with the coloured , crowded beaches. Note the statue of George III (1809) on the esplanade. His holiday at Weymouth in 1789 greatly helped it as a resort. Portraits in the Town Hall and the Last Supper by unjustly, neglected artist Sir James Thornhill in St Mary's church.
The most remarkable natural feature hereabouts is of course Chesil Bank, that extraordinary strip of shingle which has been the scene of so many devastating wrecks. Such points as "Deadman's Bay" tell their melancholy story plainly enough, and it is pleasant to find that the long recital of lost lives and wasted treasure is occasionally varied and relived by an event such as occurred on the night of November 23, 1824, when a small ship was swept clean over the bank into the peaceful waters of the Fleet - an intervention of Providence which seems almost miraculous.
8 m south of Dorchester.
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1930's Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach
Weymouth Steamers
Weymouth Harbour
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