06/06/2026
Every year we like to remember the brave men and women who worked in and around Upton Grange.
82 years ago, in the summer of 1944, most of them were in the military.
A guest gave us a glimpse into what it was like here back then. Doris was one of the first to stay in the newly-converted holiday cottages, and she came for the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
Doris was stationed here during the Second World War, from 1943 to 1945. She was an ‘ops’ girl, one of the team who manned the operations room. It was in the cow house, now occupied by Owl’s Roost and Foxes Cottage.
Doris and her team monitored the movement of enemy aircraft, and vessels moving in the English Channel.
We'll always be grateful to the thousands of men and women who sacrificed so much in those years.
Photo is of reenactors on Weymouth seafront. Every June the town remembers the many Americans who left this area for the invasion of France in 1944.
