DAVE SALES, a shellfisherman for over fifty years, has worked the Dorset Coast from Poole to West Bay.
In the course of his long career, he has experienced many changes in the industry.
He has been a member of the Southern Sea Fisheries Committee for more than forty years and studied the fishing industry in the US [...]
COMPOSER Rachel Leach has created a dramatic score to bring to life a silent film made in Bridport in the late 1930s.
Dope Under Thorncombe, a melodrama based around West Bay, was made by local people under the direction of amateur filmmaker Frank Trevett.
His daughter, Vivienne Smith, pictured with the camera that captured the story, handed [...]
AN ARTIST is to going to be paid to work on researching links between the heritage and wildlife of Bridport / West Bay and Newfoundland.
Why? Because Bridport Museum and the environmental group Discover West Bay have won a Dorset Pride of Place Award allowing them to commission somebody to produce “some form of interpretation”.
Why Newfoundland? [...]
FOUND this on tumblr with the comment “Dorset knows lol”
What I can’t work out, from looking at the wall, is where this mock sign is supposed to be. It looks tantalisingly like West Bay, but could it be Lyme Regis? A strange question, I know, but I am genuinely curious…
ARTICLE UPDATED on November 26, and again on December 5.
Watch YouTube video showing train journey from Bridport to Maiden Newton in 1975 by clicking on this link. Note: film is silent
WORK may start before Christmas on plans to turn the old Bridport to Maiden Newton railway line into a Trailway for walkers, cyclists and wheelchair users.
The Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty [...]
SCIENTISTS have been using ground-penetrating radar to find out more about the history of Chesil Beach.
Tests near Abbotsbury, Langton Herring and Ferrybridge have provided fresh clues about the evolution and internal make-up of one of the greatest features of the Dorset landscape.
Results also hint at what might happen to the beach in future, particularly if global [...]
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