The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-16 00:00:00

THE TRADE OF THE TOWN.

A correspondent who takes an extremely roseate
view of matters writes :
" Builders, carpenters, painters, decorators, and con-
tractors are doing a good stroke of business in Dorchester
just now, • number of improvements and alterations
beicarried out The new road from the Bridport-mad,
running parallel with the Great Western Hotel, and thus
across Into the Weymouth-road will be • great boon, and
being made of good width, with a path on the western
side, will form a pleasant walk a little way from the town.
Part of the old fair-Sold has been taken, and is being laid
out by Mr. S. R. Harris, of the Nurseries, Fordington, into
a nice garden, and we Noon hope too see a well stocked
nursery. The obi Great Western Hotel is being int.!y
improved and enlarged. Tenders are invited for
out the new Fair Field on s Knap, which
cause work for contractors besides • little
exercise for hewers of timber. Would it be a bed idea to
Invite the ex-premier (Mr. Gladstone), to show his process
In felling, by operating on what some
" scrubby trees," on Beggar's Knap. The new rccii:s=
ing from South-street in a S.S. direction across Fordington
Field is nearly completed, and a villa residence is being
erected for Dr. Robinson by the wellAnown builders
Maria R. Davis and Roe of this town. We have seen
Plans of the bowie which have been prepared by Dr.
Robinson himself, it promises to be • meet commodious
residence. The builders have commenced the work, the
caws are made, and the contractors are too wall known
as being expeditious in their work, to allow of the
thought that it will be long before the work is complete.
At the Town Hall the same builders are carrying out
improvements. The old doors of the building have been
removed and their places supplied by large arched
vriadows, whilst the interior of the old building has been
so altered as to form several anti-rooms, the entrance to
the new Corn Exchange, being by • door and hall from
the High East-street, oppodte Messrs. Saunders and
Jacob's establishment This will be a decided improve-
ment, and one which it has long been contemplated to
carry out, as the old entrance to the new Corn Exchange
was by a circuitous route. But the work of improving
dose not end here. At Fordington-bill, in place of the
old dilapidated buildings, which 12 months ago stood on
the northern side of the road, have risen itemealZ3
nice looking dwellinds, which Mr. Wellspring has erected,
and which will soon be tit for habitation, and Iri7o
the whole of the old buildings On the same side of the
street are to be demolished and new cottarvierected. At
mIP the bottom of Gute-street are also erected •
number of dwelling., and the street there be much
Improved. Two new homesteads are to be erected in
Fordington Field, for ILR.H. the Prince of Wales, that
for Castle Farm in the occupation of Mr. J. Ton,
Messrs. Davis and SOD and that for Poundbury
occupied by the Misses Legi will be built by Mr. G. J. G.
Gregory. Each of these homesteads will cost about
£6,000. Mr. Cox, of Yeovil, is to build • homestead for
Mr. Clifford in the same field, which will cost about £5,000
and will be called "Middle Farm." During the past week
surveys have been taken of Icen-road, with a view of
levelling it, and on every hand are signs of plenty to do.
The painter, and decorators are engaged "setting or the
house of different tradesmen in the town, and altogether
business looks brink, and the coming summer should be a
prosperous one for the county town, and with all the
above work proirreasing, there should be none standing
Idly at the corners of the streets saying "there is no work
to be done" Those who are willing te earn a honest
living can do No, and our gaols and workhouses should be
things unnecessary, and like that in • town in an adjoin-
ing county, "our castle" might won be thrown open to
the inspection of the public as an unneosseary evil; our
police force would soon be dispensed with, and our
guardians of the poor and all the etceteras would become
a thing of the past. Hasten happy and prosperous time