Hi, I was born in Bridport in October 1950 and emigrated to Adelaide, Australia in 1966 with my parents and 2 sisters.

I have fond memories of the Town Hall and remember singing Christmas Carols outside the hall as a young child. I loved to sing!
Also, each child was given a bag of boiled sweets and I can still remember the taste of them (like cough drops…very good too.) I can also still taste the cold night air and feel it reaching my lungs.
This is probably not quite what you are looking for but the memory is very dear to me.

I have found myself reflecting on my life in Bridport today because I have been upset to see the floods that happened last weekend. I do hope that you are over the worst of this and that nobody was hurt.

Now and again it is used as a lending library, I have to return
the odd magazine!!!!!

Hi Jonathan.

The Huddersfield web magazine Open Writing has published the story about the BBC world service:
http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2012/05/bbc_overseas_se.php

Thanks to you, I’ve stumbled on to an interesting story. See my blog:
Nimblenoms.blogspot.com
Best wishes, Eric Shackle, retired Sydney
journalist.

I have lived in Eype and West Bay. Attended some classes at Symondsbury School and Bridport General and Visitation Convent,Bridport. I now live in Maryland. I was married in 1945 to
an American from the lst. Division who landed on Omaha Beach
June 6,1944.

I met Annette Mills when she was convalescing from an automobile accient she had sufferred in London. I typed some personal correspondence for her. Annette was staying in Little Cottage next door to Ivy Cottage where I lived. Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh had visited Ivy Cottage for a short visit. Their names and comments were in the Visitors Book there- something written in
french- something like “Une petit and charmant cottage.”

I am delighted that this website is up and running and will keep in touch.

Ok. So public access to the beach may be protected but has anyone realised that this right of access becomes a moot point if parking facilities are removed and no parking is allowed? Thus making the beach accessible to the few members of the public who are able bodied enough to walk God knows how far from the nearest parking? Don’t think this won’t happen either.

I’ve been in that building several times to buy things from Bradfords/Travis Perkins, but I did not realise it was so old and such a part of the Bridport Railway history. Having re-awakened my interest in the story of the railway on a recent visit to Bridport it is a shame that I can’t re-visit this building with my ‘railway’ eyes. The building can be seen clearly in an old map from 1880. Thanks for the story and photos.
Jonathan

Just pushing my luck and trying to make contact with Norman after nearly 50 years. Does he remember our days as campaigners for the Labour Party, which put the fear of *** into certain residents?

Anyway, best wishes Norman & Pat

I’ve been in the Tiger a couple of times recently and have to say I’ve been impressed with the range of ales served.

I hadn’t been in there for years, it was a regular haunt in the late 1980s but I got out of the habit of venturing up Barrack Street. Does anyone remember Geoff the landlord from that era?

As you will see the date of this photograph is late November and it is evening, hence dark. Indeed I do know Happy Island and the fields and have often walked my various dogs along the banks of the Asker over the years. I was describing the road. As hideous a dump as you would find in a long day’s wander. Why anyone would want to protect it is way beyond me. Eggardon is indeed a pleasant spot but is only visible in the far distance. I agree with you about the variety and quality of the goods on offer, as I mentioned in my original piece, however I have not returned – shopping is not my department and is something I prefer to leave to an expert.