Dorset Architectural Heritage Week
A Decade of DAHW - The First Ten Years

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The first Dorset Architectural Heritage Week heralded by a slim programme of 24 events within a guide book of information about our heritage. Organised by Dorset County Council.

1995
51 events on a double sided A2 leaflet plus a Treasure Hunt and a Challenge Competition.

1996
72 events plus a Treasure Trail and a competition on an A2 folded leaflet.

1997

With 91 events, we change to providing a small booklet. This allows us to provide a gazetteer to other places to visit and other useful information for the heritage seeker. A children's picture competition and a photographic competition are held.

1998
141 events and the 750th anniversary of the Longspee Charter to Poole is celebrated. The cover shows winning entries from the picture and photographic competitions of 1997. A special postcard is issued. The event is sponsored by English Heritage.

1999
The first of the covers designed by John Lowe, based on a Piet Mondrian painting (Yellow and Blue). Mr Booth's prizewinning photographs of a Highcliffe Castle gargoyle becomes the event's logo. The event is sponsored by English Heritage.

2000

We celebrate the Millennium with 266 events, many churches taking part. The cover design incorporates three crosses (representing Calvary) and continues the Mondrian theme.

2001
Organisation of the event is now taken over by East Dorset Heritage Trust. This is the first year of five years' sponsorship by the Institute of Commercial Management. The cover is a homage to Mondrian and to Charles Rene Macintosh.

2002
Royal Jubilee Year is celebrated with a crown within the cover design. We hold the first Dorset Architectural Heritage fair successfully assisted by Alison Henry. Dorset Architectural Heritage Week and its sponsor, the Institute of Commercial Management is presented with the Runner up Award of the Dorset Archeological Award 2002 by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset.

2003
This year's cover celebrates the Art Deco style. The fair has to be abandoned due to a lack of craftsmen and firms available to mount displays.

2004

This year's cover celebrates the 10th year of the event representing a door that opens up new experiences through the week. Hinges, the lock case and handle and the gap beneath, letting the draft in are combined with nailheads of the 17th Century door, slits of the 60's and 70's, conservation door and small spaces' a current fashion theme in doors.

Beyond 2004
DAHW continues well into the Twenty-First Century with no sign of slowing up!