Lush Places: The village flower show
HERE IN Lush Places, it is the day of the village flower show. Car boots are open on the hall forecourt, spilling out dahlias, leeks the length of Chile and spikes of gladioli sharp enough to impale yourself on. Gardeners, bakers, photographers and handicraft makers walk into the hall steadily, carefully, so as not to trip. [...]
Rare Roman camp discovered in West Dorset
TRACES of a Roman camp have been discovered near Sherborne in West Dorset. Aerial photographs taken earlier this summer revealed three sides of a lightly built defensive enclosure in a barley field near Bradford Abbas. Marks showed up through the crop because the long hot days of June had parched the ground. English Heritage say [...]
Red Arrows offer to support Drimpton in 2011
Mike Saunders, chairman of Drimpton Fun Day Trust, reflects on this year’s village event, sadly affected by bad weather, and reveals that the Red Arrows are keen to appear next year.
Updated: Opera flies again at Bridport’s Electric Palace
EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS after it first opened the Electric Palace in Bridport is returning to its original purpose: OPERA. Yes, opera. “The building was originally erected for dual use as a cinema and opera house for the Palmer brewing family, who wanted to bring opera to Dorset.” So reads the citation for the Grade II listing [...]
Lush Places: all hail to the council’s King Rat
Once upon a time in Lush Places, the village had a problem with rats. They would scurry from house to house, holding parties under the floorboards, orgies in the airing cupboards and having babies in the boiler. I recall this after hearing the news that a rat the size of a coypu and dubbed ‘Ratzilla’ [...]
West Dorset: Women challenged to survive where the wild things are
A WILD weekend in the woods of West Dorset is being offered to 25 Hardy Women. The exact location is a secret
It’s “show us your money” time for Bridport Literary & Scientific Institute campaigners
DORSET COUNTY Council has insisted that Bridport’s historic Literary & Scientific Institute could still house a new centre devoted to the history of West Dorset’s rope and net making industry.