We are looking for personal stories about the Town Hall – maybe an event you attended, a remembered detail that’s been replaced, something that happened in the centre of town. Also we would love to see your old photographs or other related items. Unless we capture and collect this information…
EMILY HICKS has begun work as the new curator of Bridport Museum Trust. Ms Hicks first ventured into the world of museums in her early teens when she used to dress up as a Victorian housemaid and cook Welsh cakes on an old range at an open air museum. She studied…
BRIDPORT Museum curator Alice Martin is leaving to become house and collections manager at Sir Winston Churchill’s old house, Chartwell in Kent. “I went there once when I was a kid,” she said. “Now I get to live in the house. It will be fantastic. “I’m also looking forward to…
MORE time is being sought for work on a plan to turn Bridport’s old Literary and Scientific Institute into a new Heritage and Study Centre incorporating the town’s museum. The Institute in East Street, a Grade II* Listed Building, is one of Dorset’s historic treasures. It began life in the…
A HAT-MAKING competition with a first prize of £500 has been launched by Bridport Hat Festival. The brief is simply to produce an inspirational hat. Entries will be judged by professionals from the world of hats and the best creations will go on display at Bridport Hat Festival from Friday,…
IT’S HARD to imagine you could lose a castle, but that is what Bridport seems to have managed… All the best efforts of the Dorset Castles Research Group have been unable to find it again. It’s true the castle was very old – roughly 935 years old – but even…
ENTRANCE to Bridport Museum will be free this year after a fund-raising auction of promises raised more than £3,500. About £2,000 was needed for the museum to continue the policy of free entrance it began last year – a policy which saw visitor numbers double. However, strong bidding for more…
