Old Dorset Evening Echo photos taken by Harry Green

Here, we share some photos of extreme weather in Dorset - from heavy snow to heatwaves, I hope you enjoy viewing these wonderful images, which were taken by Dorset Evening Echo photographer Harry Green.

Scroll down to see these evocative photos.

3.5 litre Rover Coupe being hauled out of Weymouth harbour

According to one reader, a car falling into the harbour wasn't an unusual occurrence, with firefighters often having to turn out from North Quay fire station to attend those incidents. This picture appears to be taken from the Brewers Quay side of the harbour, not far from the old lifeboat mooring location.

Another reader thought that this car could be a foreign plate because it has three fixings (screws), with other countries at the time demanding more than the UK.

But others thought that the car originated from Kent, as its plate has the letters KJ on it.

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A car during the big snow of 1962 and 63 in Weymouth. Note the L plate.

This winter was the coldest in England and Wales since 1740. Dorset experienced one of the worst winters in living memory. The county was covered in a blanket of snow and many rural communities were cut off.

It's thought that this photo of an unfortunate learner driver's car was taken on Chickerell Road in Weymouth.

One reader remembers: "This was my first experience of real snow. I can remember being told off for sledging on Buxton Road by a lady who said I might get run over!

"Needless to say there was nothing moving in the foot and a half of snow that was laying. I believe the Yeovil road wasn't cleared until late March."

Bovington demonstration range, Gallows Hill

Broadwey Hill, Weymouth winter of 1962 and 1963

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Children making the most of the sun in the Borough Gardens, Dorchester

This paddling pool was created from the Second World War ARP water storage tank that was located in the north west end of the gardens, where the toilets and cafe are now.

One reader remembers: "I was born in 1946 in Ackland Road and was often taken there by my parents, great days - can't remember it ever raining during school holidays!"

Another reader remembers that the pool had a sign indicating it was to be used by children aged 10 and under only and another remembers an ice cream van driving into the park as a lad in the late 1960s and 70s.

Apparently in the winter time the pool would be used as an ice rink!

Farmer Ken Pashen starts to cut his winter oats with a new Allis Chalmers Gleaner combine, West Farm, Lower Bincombe, 1960

Ford cars, built in Spain, are unloaded from cargo ships at Weymouth and transported by road to Yeovil

It's thought that this photo dates from the late 1970s, with one reader recalling: "I can remember seeing the cars being unloaded sitting on the Nothe and going to Abbey Hill cars in Yeovil."

Another reader remembers: "One load came to grief down the Grove in Dorchester scattering Fiestas across the road.

"There was a rumour that there were quite a few stored for several years in a field near Yeovil that had damage in transit."

Another says: "I remember those transporters rattling past our house on Dorchester Road.

"Not so bad during the day time, but at night the noise was horrendous, especially when they were making the return run from Yeovil when empty. Chains rattling and banging all through the night."

‘Sambur’ unloading a cargo of Guernsey tomatoes in Weymouth harbour

TSS Sambur was a cargo vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1925 and was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson as one of a pair of new cargo vessels, the other being TSS Roebuck, and launched in 1925. She was put to work on freight services between the Channel Islands and Weymouth.

In June 1940 she was sent with her sister ship Roebuck to Saint-Valery-en-Caux to assist in the evacuation of the 51st Highland Division. However, by the time they arrived the Germans were already in control of the port and both ships were damaged by gunfire. Subsequently she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for work as a barrage balloon ship in the River Thames and English Channel. In 1942 she was renamed Toreador.

She returned to railway service and her original name after the war and resumed operation at Weymouth in September 1945 and in 1948 was taken over by British Railways.

She was scrapped in 1964.

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Telephone kiosk outside the Rock hotel in Abbotsbury Road, Weymouth, demolished in a vehicle accident

Traffic on Weymouth Esplanade

United States Navy submarine E571 coming in to berth at Portland Dockyard