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Bournemouth – All Seasons! 1930-1939

Posted on 20 May 2013 Posted in Dorset Leave a comment
By: Graham Richardson - CC BY 2.0

Below is a 1930s travelogue about Bournemouth which at the time was in Hampshire not Dorset. It is part of the British Pathe collection. It tells how eighty years before Bournemouth had been but a village, that is phenomenal growth. Another eighty years on and no doubt those who made this film would be amazed

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ITV in the South West – From Westward To Carlton

Posted on 19 May 2013 Posted in TV & Radio Leave a comment
TSW

Independent Television (ITV) reached the South West of England in 1961 with the start up of Westward Television. Over the following decades Westward was replaced by TSW (Television South West), who lost the franchise to Westcountry Television, who in turn were taken over by Carlton TV. Carlton eventually merged with Granada Television to form one

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Air 107.2, Weymouth & Portland get a new FM radio station

Posted on 11 May 2013 Posted in Dorset, TV & Radio Leave a comment
Air 1072 Weymouth and Portland

Air (All Inclusive Radio) has been streaming on-line radio from Weymouth from May 2011 but as of today they are a fully fledged FM radio station broadcasting on 107.2 FM. Relaunched as Air 107.2 it is a community radio station aimed at Weymouth and Portland, however their radio signal clearly reaches over here in the

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Remembering Eiffel Tower Lemonade

Posted on 10 May 2013 Posted in Food & Drink Leave a comment
eiffel tower lemonade

I spotted an old advertisement for Eiffel Tower Lemonade recently. The advert was much older than me but it brought back memories of having Eiffel Tower Lemonade as a child. I remember Eiffel Tower Lemonade coming in a small cylindrical jar with a yellow plastic lid. Rather than being a ready made drink the jar

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Classic Shell For Windows 8, Bringing Back The Start Button

Posted on 9 May 2013 Posted in Random Stuff Leave a comment
Classic Shell

My new Dell computer came with Microsoft’s latest offering, Windows 8, installed. Now overall I am finding Windows 8 to be a great operating system but like many others I am annoyed by the new screen of tiles that has replaced the start menu. The block tiles sort of work on mobile phones and table

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Easy Bean Meals

Posted on 8 May 2013 Posted in Food & Drink Leave a comment
easy bean

Last week I spotted Easy Bean‘s little one-pot meals in a shop chiller cabinet and thought they look interesting, but a bit pricey. On Sunday I was at the Dorset Knob Throwing and Frome Valley Food Fest at Cattistock and spotted  easy Bean had a stand exhibiting their wares. I managed to sample a couple

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Get A Big Top Hat – Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Posted on 7 May 2013 Posted in Random Stuff Leave a comment
great

I recently came across the song below which comes from the short animated film “Great” which I remember seeing on TV years ago. “Great“ tells the story of legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The animation was directed by Bob Godfrey who is probably best remembered for the “Roobarb and Custard” children’s cartoon originally shown on BBC1.

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Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt

Posted on 7 May 2013 Posted in Random Stuff, TV & Radio Leave a comment
Markets of Britain

Take a piece from an old television programme and add a new fictional narration and you get the video shown below “Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt“. The men behind this humorous film are Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz who were also behind the BBC 2 spoof science programme “Look Around You“.

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Lady Loverley’s Chatter Cap

Posted on 6 May 2013 Posted in Dorset, Random Stuff Leave a comment
Lady Loverleys

I spotted this in the window of T Snooks Gentleman’s Outfitters in West Street, Bridport. Obviously a play on the title of the D.H.Lawrence novel, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover“, I wonder who dreamt up “Lady Loverley’s Chatter Cap“.

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Goodbye Blue Eclipse Coffee, Hello GranArom Rich Roast

Posted on 5 May 2013 Posted in Food & Drink 1 Comment
rich roast

Back in December 2011 I commented on the fact that Lidl had replaced their Monte Santos coffee with one called Blue Eclipse. It seems Blue Eclipse  is now no more, when I was in Lidl today there were jars of a new instant coffee, GranArom Rich Roast, where the Blue Eclipse used to be. It

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