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 Gundrys van they show collecting the finished nets?

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. I couldn’t resist trying it, and very nice it was too. Good value at £7.95, I will be back to sample another soon.

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 that do pretty passable pints of Copper bitter. Perhaps I caught The George, a tied Palmers pub, on a bad day but I wasn’t impressed with my pint there.

My ploughman’s arrived on a chunk of wood rather than a plate! Three cheeses, cheddar, a red coloured cheese and a blue cheese that I would guess was stilton, this being a Dorset pub I was half hoping for Blue Vinny. This was accompanied by a generous portion of bread, small pots of pickle and a frilly but fairly tasteless salad which included some very small pickled onions.

There were also caramelised walnuts as mentioned on The George Inn’s menu. They were very crunchy and very sweet. Walnuts on their own might have been an interesting addition but these seemed out of place and a distraction.

At £7.95 an ok ploughman’s lunch pretentiously presented.

They also manage to somehow link the story to The Dorset Broadcasting Action Groups campaign for a BBC Radio Dorset. I’m struggling to see how the closure of a huge short wave transmitting station broadcasting internationally can be linked to setting up a local FM station.

Rampisham Transmitter Station

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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.

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 them and then converted the scans to pdf files rather than just converting the originals so they look a bit crude.

Here are the links.

West Dorset District Council candidates

Parish and Town Council candidates