Max Gate, Alington Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2FN

Celebrating William Barnes with Tim Laycock and Friends

Celebrating William Barnes with Tim Laycock, together with dialect readers, from around the county in programme of words and music in the garden of Thomas Hardy's Max Gate, by courtesy of the National Trust.

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