A beekeeping experience!
Beekeeping Experience with lunch or Cream Tea COME AND MEET OUR BEES! This experience is just lovely! Spend 3 hours meeting the bees and enjoying lunch or a cream tea in our delightful cottage garden set in the grounds…
Mayor’s Blog – Bridport Cohousing
Bridport Cohousing In a field adjacent to Bridport Hospital there is something very exciting happening. Groundbreaking is a term used to describe all manner of innovations but on this occasion what is happening is truly ground breaking because emerging from…
Mayor’s Blog – Barking Mad, West Bay and St Mary’s Orchard
Barking Mad, West Bay Discovery Centre & St Mary’s School Orchard Barking Mad My thanks to Roz Copson, Dee Fenton (Arts Centre), volunteers, participants, and all those who attended (including several town councillors) for their various contributions towards making the…
Mayor’s Blog – Food and Water
Food and Water On Saturday I had the pleasure of officially declaring open the Bridport Food Fair and the new water fountain in Bucky Doo Square. At both events I was joined by our wonderful Town Crier John Collingwood who…
Mayor’s Blog – Riding in a Trishaw
Riding in a Trishaw from West Bay To Bucky Doo Square Cycling Without Age is an international project that helps elderly and disabled people get out and about using volunteer-driven ‘trishaws’. The initiative is looking to set up a new…
Mayor’s Blog – Bridport Business Awards 2021
Bridport Business Awards 2021 It was an absolute privilege and pleasure to attend the Bridport Business Awards 2021. Like everything else over the past year plus the awards were impacted upon by the Covid pandemic. Launched on the 11th November…
Mayor’s Blog – A Sunny Bank Holiday…
A Sunny Bank Holiday Weekend A Bank Holiday weekend and the sun is shining. What more could we ask for after such a long period of doom, cooped up inside? There is nothing like some clear blue skies and warm…
Mayor’s Blog – The Future of Local Shopping has Arrived
Bridport – the future of local shopping has arrived. On July 5th 1994 Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie opened an online bookstore in Seattle. Because of the city’s reputation as a tech hub and Washington states small population it…
Mayor’s Blog – Bridport’s Street Market
Bridport’s Street Market Bridport’s street market is one of the jewels that contribute to making our town so special. The market you see today has a long history. In 1253, King Henry III granted a charter to Bridport and since…
Mayor’s Blog – Litter Free Streets
Note: Bit of a glitch with pictures due to IT issues on our website. Please refer to www.bridport-tc.gov.uk/news/Mayor's Blog Since becoming Town Mayor 12 months ago, almost all of my duties have had to be carried out virtually due to…