A 1938 postcard captures Cerne Abbas in a quiet in-between moment: after decline, before revival – when the Giant didn’t warrant a mention In his 1906 book Highways and Byways in Dorset, Sir Frederick Treves painted a bleak picture of Cerne Abbas as ‘decaying and strangely silent’: ‘It is a clean, trim, old-world town, which has remained unchanged for Heaven knows how many years … The place, however, is empty and decaying and strangely silent. G…
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