The TSB returns to Bridport
Looking through today’s edition of the Bridport News I spotted a planning applications for both 3 East Street and 9 West Street in Bridport. Being nosey I looked them up on the Dorset planning web...
View ArticleAlf Pope, Broadwindsor Post Office & General Store
With the opening of Broadwindsor’s new shop I thought I would write about a previous Broadwindsor shopkeeper. In the early twentieth century Broadwindsor Post Office & General Store in the village...
View ArticleThe Sherborne Tesco Debate
By: 28704869 – CC BY 2.0 Plans by Tesco to acquire the Sherborne Hotel, knock it down, and rebuild as a supermarket have generated a fair amount of comment, mainly negative. There is a campaign by...
View ArticleSherborne Tesco – The Song
There has been a video posted on YouTube by those opposed to Tesco building a supermarket in Sherborne, take a look below and see what you think. The song is a reworking of the 1979 Pink Floyd song...
View ArticleWaitrose comes to Sherbourne (not Sherborne)
As you may well have heard Waitrose are coming to Sherborne. They have done a deal to take over the Co-operative store in the middle of town, the one the Co-op acquired when they bought Somerfield....
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