Visiting Hardy's Houses

The Kersley-Allinson family visit Max Gate and Bockhampton

Oliver (11) and Samuel (7) Kersley Allinson at the Bockhampton Cottage

The Kersley-Allinson family live in Hertfordshire but regularly visit Dorset to see family. Oliver and Samuel love learning about how Hardy lived in the nineteenth century.

‘Young explorers learning what it would have been like for young Thomas Hardy growing up at the cottage and the type of activities he might have been expected to undertake.’

Playing fiddles at the Birthplace Cottage in Bockhampton

Helen Kersley-Allinson in one of Hardy's studies at Max Gate

Helen Kersley-Allinson 22nd September 2019

• Associated pages
• A Visit to Bathsheba Everdene's House
• Visiting Hardy's Houses
• A Hardy Postcard Collection in Virginia
• A Hardy Family History Research Trip
• Sharing a Wedding Anniversary with Hardy
• Celebrating 150 Years Since Hardy Met Emma Gifford
• On Rainbarrows with Alban O'Brien

2025/2026 THS Dates for your diary

From 06/09/2025 until 01/08/2026
Starts 12:00 until 18:00

London Walk: The Hardy Tree

On 06/12/2025
Starts 12:00 until 14:00

London Lecture 2025: Hardy in London

On 06/12/2025
Starts 15:00 until 16:00

Going The Rounds 2025 - Church Performance

On 11/12/2025
Starts 18:30 until 20:30

Wessex at MUTT - Everything Dog

Nov2025

West Stafford History Weekend

Nov2025

Hardy and Two First World War Poets

Nov2025

Wessex Tales Chinese E-book

Nov2025