Buildings in Mayfair include both the Canadian High Commission and the United States embassy in Grosvenor Square, the Royal Academy of Arts, The Handel House Museum, the Grosvenor House Hotel, Claridge's and The Dorchester.

In 2011, Dorchester Arts became an Arts Council ' National Portfolio organisation ' with enhanced funding until 2015.

A new production, directed by Mel Hooley with Zimbabwean actors Kevin Hanssen and Anne Fischer is being staged at Dorchester Arts in Dorset from 19 – 21 August 2010, supported by the British Council.

Commission from South-West Arts and Eldridge Pope, brewers, of Dorchester.

Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, his education includes a Bachelor of Arts in organic chemistry from the University of Toronto received in 1950, a Master of Science in organic chemistry from Dalhousie University received in 1952, a Ph. D. in organic chemistry from the University of London received in 1956, and a D. I. C.

* 2008: Comedy Nights @ Dorchester Arts Centre ( throughout the year )

Work to connect the plant to the five counties ( Berkeley, Orangeburg, Dorchester, Calhoun, and Sumter ) is underway and being overseen and funded by the same parties.

John married in Salem, March 22, 1674 / 5, Ruth Gardner, granddaughter of " Old Planter " Thomas Gardner, a settler of Salem who arrived as part of colonization efforts funded by the Dorchester Company in 1625.

Dorchester is noted as being home and inspiration to the author Thomas Hardy, whose novel The Mayor of Casterbridge was based on the town.

Dorchester town council, West Dorset District Council and Dorset County Council, all of whom are based within the town.

Local author and poet Thomas Hardy based the fictional town of Casterbridge on Dorchester.

It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge ( based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset ).

Eileen Gunn ( b. June 23, 1945, Dorchester, Massachusetts ) is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978.

During the World War II she was based at the Dorchester Hotel, nicknamed ' the Dorch ', her days spent nursing wounded soldiers, working in canteens, lecturing and doing other war work.

Dorchester Town Football Club are a semi-professional football club, based in Dorchester, Dorset, England, and currently playing in the Blue Square Bet South.

Suddenly finding herself walking toward a former owner in Dorchester County, she yanked the strings holding the birds ' legs, and their agitation allowed her to avoid eye contact.

In 1752 the buildings were bought by the Damer family: in 1771, to make way for a new house and landscaped estate, the 1st Baron Milton ( later 1st Earl of Dorchester ) demolished the remaining abbey buildings, keeping only part of the church as a private chapel, and the adjacent market town of Milton ( creating Milton Abbas to rehouse the former inhabitants ) in 1780.

The Charles Street development, being built on the site of the former Charles Street car park, is the newest project in Dorchester, and will include 23 new shops, a 485-space underground car park, an hotel, affordable housing, new public toilets, a public library and adult education centre provided and paid for by Dorset County Council, and offices and separate parking occupied and paid for by West Dorset District Council.

The former battle site suggests that the Dumnonian army was invading Wessex using the Roman road eastward from Exeter to Dorchester and was intercepted by a West Saxon garrison marching south.

The site was just east of the old Roman road between Dorchester and Towcester that passed through the former Roman town at Alchester.

It lay on the former Southampton and Dorchester Railway.

His mother, Rita Marie Capuano ( née Garvey ), was a former secretary who grew up in the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester, Allston, and Brighton.

Rejected by his former constituents in 1837, he was in 1838 elected for Pembroke, and in 1841 for Dorchester.

The consortium includes Jeff Mostyn, former Vice Chairman Steve Sly, Neill Blake and former Dorchester Town chairman Eddie Mitchell.

In 1982, the Jackson Park branch was shortened to University Avenue because of structural deterioration at the Dorchester Bridge which carried the route across the Illinois Central Railroad and the former Stony Island / 63rd terminal was closed March 4, 1982.

After the Roman conquest, their main civitates, or settlement-centred administrative units, were Durnovaria ( modern Dorchester, " the probable original capital ") and Lindinis ( modern Ilchester, " whose former, unknown status was thereby enhanced ").

Lord Portmore married Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, a former mistress of James II.

* Jean Buckley-Born in Dorchester, former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player

Afterwards, Lord Dorchester, who was always fond of books, spent his time mainly in London engaged in the study of medicine and law, his devotion to the former science bringing upon him a certain amount of ridicule and abuse.

Gibson Hall, a former Glasgow Caledonian University Hall of Residence which stood on Dorchester Avenue, was recently demolished to make way for new build.

* Trevarthen, M. ( 2008 ), Suburban life in Roman Durnovaria: Excavations at the former County Hospital Site, Dorchester, Dorset 2000 – 2001, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, ISBN 978-1874350460

One tone is made of light brown-grey sandstone from the former Beaumont Quarries ( now known as Dorchester Sandstone Quarries located in Westmorland County, New Brunswick ).

Inspired by the former Dorchester Woolworth's Store Manager Claire Robertson's success in reopening her store as ' Wellworths ', the Chelmsford branch of Faith got together and reopened their store on 3 July 2010 as ' Hope '.

Max Gate is the former home of Thomas Hardy and is located in Dorchester, Dorset, England.

WKBG intended the Brookline studios to be temporary, and in 1969, channel 56 moved to a much larger facility in a former supermarket on Morrissey Boulevard in the Dorchester section of Boston.

The trailway is part of the former Southampton and Dorchester Railway line which ran from Brockenhurst to Hamworthy Junction via Ringwood.

The westerly side of the neighborhood, north of Fuller Street and west of Dorchester Avenue, north to Welles Avenue, was laid out on the former Welles estate.

Until 1959, Dorchester had its own school, originally built in 1902 ( a state historical marker stands at the school's old location, next to the current home of the First Baptist Church of Dorchester ).

The high school closed in 1940, but the elementary school remained for nearly 20 more years, when the Dorchester school merged with the Howe Independent School District.

Dorchester has one private school, several first schools, two middle schools and one upper school.

William Barnes, the local dialect poet, was Rector of Winterborne Came, a small hamlet near Dorchester, for 24 years until his death in 1886, and ran a school in the town.

Dorchester is the birthplace of the first public elementary school in America, the Mather School, established in 1639.

In 1953 Dorchester High School consolidated as a coeducational school.

Boston Latin Academy, a 7-12 secondary school and one of the city's three exam schools, and Jeremiah E. Burke High School, a high school, are also located in Dorchester.

Orphaned at the age of thirteen, Samuel Armstrong attended public school and worked as a printer's apprentice in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

The school provides school bus service for some students who live in the Dorchester, South Boston, Hyde Park, Mattapan, and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston.

Dorchester is also home to the only high school in North America with the Beaver as their mascot, Lord Dorchester Secondary School.

Following some grammar school education in Dorchester, Wesley was sent away from home to prepare for ministerial training under Theophilus Gale.

Upon graduation from high school in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

) In 1648, Cambridge set up a public grammar school, Master Elijah Corlett's " lattin schoole ," making Cambridge the fifth town ( after Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Salem ) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to do so.

By the age of seventeen, his stepdaughter had dropped out of high school and gone from working as a waitress in Dorchester to working as a stripper and occasional prostitute in Boston's Combat Zone.