In March 2015, Gold Hill Museum embarked on an ambitious project to research the stories of the residents of Shaftesbury during World War I.
The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a £6,700 grant towards the ‘Shaftesbury Remembers’ project.
Historian Chris Stupples says over 1,000 locals’ lives are now documented – many more than he anticipated at the start of this exercise. Listen at 28:02.