The West Dorset Hanns

The "Julia", The Square, Beaminster, Dorset - from the north. Built by C&A Hann, builders and contractors. Now the town's central car park,The Square (it's actually allbut triangular) was formerly called Fore Place and housed the town market. Nowadays, it is the home of Frampton's butchers (amongst others) - a name well known to the Hann family. Other familiar names are Larcombe's ironmongers where The Square meets Hogshill Street, Francis Bugler's agricultural equipment further down Hogshill Street, opposite what used to be Samuel Gibbs', and Wakely's funeral directors just down North Street