Here is the story of a street that exists no more in Weymouth that took its name from a local burial ground.

The street was near to the much missed White Ensign Club at St Nicholas Street in Weymouth, which was closed in 1965 and demolished in the summer of 1970.

The beautiful Arts and Crafts building had a stonework exterior decorated with dolphins, anchors and decorative rope work. 

Dorset Echo: The White Ensign Club in Weymouth The White Ensign Club in Weymouth

Nearby, on the return frontage to the club was the appropriately named Bury Street, a settlement of seven properties.

It took its name from the burial ground of the parish of St Mary, Melcombe Regis.

Dorset Echo: The White Ensign Club in Weymouth and, right, the club is demolishedThe White Ensign Club in Weymouth and, right, the club is demolished (Image: NQ)

The street was demolished in 1975 along with some buildings in Lower Bond Street including a Methodist chapel.

The site was redeveloped initially as a supermarket and a multi storey car park but the store was later demolished and a cinema built on the site.

Bury Street burial ground was cleared of graves in 1974 and the occupants were reinterred in Melcombe Regis cemetery.

This picture above shows the street shortly before demolition with the demolition boards already in some of the windows.