Blandford Express is a blog which celebrates the rich and colourful history of Blandford Forum, its surrounding villages and their people.
The website tells tales such as the Shapwick Sea Monster and the Handsome Highwayman, and fondly remembers lost Blandford insititutions from the railway station to ‘Panda Pops’.
Heroic Blandfordians are commemmorated, including Samuel Johnson who served on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, and more recent military accounts of nuclear weapons being carried by RAF bombers at Tarrant Rushton are recalled.
Posting fresh tales each month, and written by ‘Old Pimpernian’, The Blandford Express website takes its name from the town newspaper which was published weekly by James Henry Bartlett between 1869 & 1895.
