Dutch theme park proposed as Dorset tourist attraction
Put an artificial skating rink in the Square, glue a few rooks up in trees and invest in a couple of tons of artificial snow and tourists will flock to Bruegeland in Dorset …
Art, science and mischief on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast
I'm looking forward to this very much indeed. How much mischief will Proboscis make at Burton Bradstock?…
New website for top Dorset parish magazine
The new Eggardon & Colmer's View website includes a tremendous picture of Colmer’s Hill by Higher Eype photographer Andy White, one of the best images of this famous West Dorset landmark I’ve ever seen.…
Amanda Wallwork: a blast from the past
Ancient landscapes and archaeological remains have fascinated Amanda Wallwork since childhood. Her images are intended to awake instinctual longings.…
Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens disprove Cyril Connolly’s despair
The strangeness and beauty of Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens challenge "the sadness of our climate". A look back at Cyril Connolly's trip to "the gardens of the West".…
Bridport Town Hall’s golden weathervane restored
THE WEATHERVANE on top of Bridport Town Hall has been re-gilded – and very fine it looks too. Bridport artist Jemma Thompson applied sheet gold in her studio on St Michael’s trading estate in the South West Quadrant. The weathervane is…
Dorset’s un-smart phone: the BT phone box, Leigh
West Dorset is the land of the un-smart phone, and nowhere is there an un-smarter phone than this. …
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Lush Places: a love letter to our local
OUR PUB re-opens next week and we’re getting very excited. Oh how we’ve missed it. A couple of months ago, when it seemed all hope was lost, Lush Places penned its very own community poem, each person contributing one or…
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So, it has been over a week since I uploaded my ‘labour of love’, Bridport by Night, to YouTube. The video really took off in the first four days, accumulating some 8,000 views in that period alone. Hits from technology…
The good folk of Bridport will be offered the chance to enjoy, for one day only, a delicacy that most of them will not have seen or tasted in decades. It is one that the vast majority of them would…
AS THE LEAVES of our calendars turn remorselessly onwards, the evenings lengthen, and the sound of Cliff Richard singing some nausea-inducing seasonal ditty drives us all out of shops around Bridport, excitement at the prospect of a new Mayor grips…
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