A HERITAGE trail has been created showcasing key historical landmarks - as the 450th anniversary of Weymouth officially being merged with Melcombe Regis is celebrated. Weymouth BID, also known as We Are Weymouth, has installed six custom designed paving slabs throughout the town as part of the Heritage Trail - a walking route exploring the history of the town. The slabs have been designed by Ned Heywood of Heritage Ceramics, a supplier of natural floor stones, using artwork provided by Weymouth Museum.
Six plaques have been installed in Weymouth to celebrate the town s history Picture: Graham Perry As part of the Heritage Trail, the slabs offer facts about the historical landmarks in the town and help to showcase Weymouth s rich and varied history.
Sheppard’s Warning
A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London.
On 16 November 1724 Jack Sheppard was hanged at Tyburn. Where Marble Arch now stands, thousands witnessed the 22-year-old Londoner’s agonising end as plans to save him dissolved in chaos. While Sheppard’s brief career in burglary had not been especially notable, by the time he was brought to the gallows by the infamous thief-taker Johnathan Wild, a run of seemingly impossible jailbreaks meant this 18th-century Houdini was the talk of the town. Drawn by the court artist Sir James Thornhill and memorialised in print by Daniel Defoe, the adventures of the carpenter’s apprentice-turned womanising thief were quickly transferred to the Drury Lane stage and told, embellished and retold in countless ballads and chapbooks.
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Jonathan Richardson the elder (1667–1745) National Portrait Gallery, London
Horace Walpole, who based his account of Kent on George Vertue s unflattering biography, regarded his work as a painter as below mediocrity . This has been the nearly unanimous verdict of posterity.
Yet, it should not be forgotten that Kent had trained as a painter in Rome. According to Vertue, who is probably a reasonably reliable source for this, after an initial apprenticeship as a coach painter & house painter he migrated to London and travelled out to Italy in July 1709 in company with John Talman, son of the leading architect of the time, and Daniel Lock, who was, like Talman, a person of wide artistic tastes.
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