Recently I stumbled upon the British Pathe website which contains loads of their old news stories to view. I came across one piece from 1954 that shows outworkers making nets in a rural setting outside Bridport. Click the image below to go to the Pathe web site to view the short film. Is that a
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I saw an advert in the View from Bridport free paper for a French Market being held in Beaminster town square today and decided to take a look. I wasn’t too impressed by the market so I popped into the Red Lion where my eye was caught by the Sunday roast carvery they were serving.
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I’m something of a cynic when it comes to all the hype about the upcoming 2012 London Olympics but with the sailing events taking place down here in Dorset I was interested to come across The Unofficial Weymouth & Portland 2012 Olympic Blog. It’s a bit sparse as far as posts go at the moment,
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I called into The George Inn at Chideock at lunchtime earlier this week. Being peckish I ordered a ploughman’s lunch to have with my pint of beer. I’m not a great fan of Palmers beer, there are plenty of other local brews I’d rather have, but there are a couple of Palmers pubs I visit
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The Rampisham radio mast closure story makes the pages of the Western Gazette this week, but they seem to think it’s a television transmitter! Fairly typical of the standard of journalism in some local papers I’m afraid. They also manage to somehow link the story to The Dorset Broadcasting Action Groups campaign for a BBC
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BBC World Service transmitter site at Rampisham will close with the loss of 19 jobs according to BECTU trade union web site. The site is run by Babcock Engineering. © Image Copyright Nigel Mykura. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Licence
Have just spotted this on the Bridport Radio website. There are mock ups of two not too flattering postcards, one from Weymouth, the other Bridport. I’d love to reproduce them here that would be pinching so you will just have to visit this link and see for yourself.
Flicking through The Independant on Sunday today I came across an article titled What ho! Lay out your best tweeds – chaps are dressing up again and there was a brief interview with Roger Snook, owner of our very own Bridport specialist hat shop T Snook of West Street. The link above will take you
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Had the first West Dorset District Council election leaflet delivered today. They are starting early, nominations only closed a few days ago. I decided to see if I could find a list of candidates, and yes there are links to the notices on the dorsetforyou.com website. It looks like they have printed the lists, scanned
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I had an outpatients appointment at Dorset County Hospital earlier (well posting at 00:45 it was technically yesterday) and got to Dorchester early. I parked in a car park in the middle of town and paid 60p for an hour. Moving on to the hospital for my appointment I had to pay £1.60 to park
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