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THIS photograph was sent to me in an email catchlined 2p or not 2p, with the message: “Came across this at Friar Waddon today while on a…
Read articleMemorial to dead worker restored as Beaminster Tunnel set to reopen
THREE DAYS before Beaminster Tunnel first opened to the world in June 1832, one of the men working on it died. William Aplin, a labourer, was killed by “a…
Read articleArtist 763, corrugated
ARTIST Liz Somerville is opening up her studio in Cattistock this weekend for a Christmas Sale. There’s something about her technique, and her sense of…
Read articleOld Bridport to Maiden Newton railway line may become Trailway
The branch line became a well-loved part of the local landscape. Poet and author Sylvia Townsend Warner, who lived in Frome Vauchurch just outside Maiden Newton, described the locomotive as trotting obediently under the shadow of Eggardon Hill like a little horse. She also wrote of the train’s “marmalade” light.
Read articleStrummer Pink opens in Beaminster, “the buzz town of West Dorset”
“PEOPLE really do enjoy coming to Beaminster and I’m constantly hearing feedback that suggests that Beaminster is the buzz town of West Dorset and certainly this…
Read articleTake this Sword of Damocles away from our coast, says Dorset Wildlife Trust
DORSET Wildlife Trust claims that 10 oil tankers sitting in Lyme Bay, waiting for oil prices to rise, are “an accident waiting to happen”. Tankers parked off the coast near Brixham are thought…
Read articlePilsdon the model for new woodland commune in Somerset
THE WRITER Tobias Jones has sold his house in Bristol and bought 10 acres of woodland in Somerset so that he and his family can set…
Read articleUnderground carbon storage proposed for Dorset: money-spinner or death trap?
Note: This article was first published in October. It’s been slightly revised and is being republished now because of the Government’s anouncement, in the Queen’s Speech today, that it’s going to legislate for…
Read articleEr… Um… Ah
I POPPED in to Bridport Old Books and Caroline said to me: “Here, try this.” So I put some headphones on and listened to what sounded…
Read articlePhallic garden feature provokes fresh speculation about date of Cerne Abbas giant
YOU MUST read this: a piece in The Times about how an abandoned garden in Cerne Abbas suggests the giant was created in the late 16th or early…
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