In 1786, Lord Milton of Milton Abbey, Lord Shaftesbury of St Giles and
Lord Arundel of Wardour Castle all attended Blandford Races.
When 74 survivors from a Swanage shipwreck stopped off at the Crown Inn in Blandford on the way to London, the Inn Master gave
them all a good dinner and two shillings & sixpence (12.5p) to see them on
their way.
In 1787, the Blandford Bank was founded. In 1858, it had to suspend
all payments with liabilities of £48,792 and assets of only £18,167.
In 1788, Mr Bailey’s Annual Ball was held in the Assembly Rooms for
the young ladies of Mrs Smith’s and the young gentlemen of Mr Chisholm’s and
the Reverend P Warton’s Boarding Schools.
In 1789, it cost eighteen shillings and eight pence (93p) for beer and
brushes to clean the streets for when King George III passed through the town.
He received a ‘tumultuous’ reception
on his way to Weymouth where he would regularly bathe in the sea waters.
In 1790, a ‘balloon coach’
called at the Greyhound Inn each day on its way from Exeter to London.
In 1791, innkeeper James Moore changed the name of the Three Swans
public house to the George in commemoration of King George III passing through
the town two years earlier.
Mailbags for London were sealed at
half past two in the afternoon for London. There was no postup to London on
Saturdays or down on Mondays.
In 1793, James Shatford, manager of the Salisbury Company of Comedians
appeared in Blandford’s ‘New Theatre.’
Blandford born Thomas Rose arrived
at Port Jackson, near Sydney in Australia as an early free settler with his
wife, Jane and three children aged between 3 & 13 years and an 18 year-old
niece.
In 1794, Adam Hunt was sentenced to seven years’ transportation for
stealing four pounds and one shilling (£4.05p) from Thomas Hatsell in a house
of ill-repute in Blandford.
(Illustration: Blandford Market Place)
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