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Dorset Council’s website have details of other Government schemes and initiatives his work at the laundry. Our furniture took 2 days to come from London as the lorry
that businesses and organisations may be able to access and information on had broken down on route. Once it arrived Mum and Dad made the sitting room
where to find additional support. into a bedsit.
Mum had my baby brother David in 1947 and I remember running to Shitterton to

Grants for people and communities in Dorset Council get the nurse. In 1949 we were allocated a council house at 12 Egdon Close and
we settled into village life.
We are delighted to announce that the Government’s Department for Transport
has awarded £438,000 to Dorset Council as part of the Active Travel Fund. This I married in 1955 and in 1959 my husband Dennis and I with daughter Gloria lived
funding will be used for walking and cycling improvements across the county as briefly with my brother George and his wife Cis at Hollybush, where second
we move towards a greener, cleaner Dorset. This is part of the Emergency Active daughter Beverley was born. When she was two months old we moved into 6
Travel Fund, together with further support from the Re-opening the High Streets Egdon Close and lived there for many happy years.
Fund. The aim of these funds are to support more people to walk and cycling for
recreation and for work.

LAST CHANCE
A31 Dorset Drainage Improvements – Update - a message
from Highways England
The schedule says: “An exhibit to be staged by one person in an alcove 7’ high by
The additional design elements of the drainage improvements along the A31 are 4’ wide by 4’ deep, title A Touch of Drama.”
in progress. As a reminder, these improvements to the drainage aims to improve
flood resistance, increase drainage capacity and ensure safety of road users and “I’d better go for it,” I say to Rob, “I’m getting older and may not feel like staging
the local community. The works are currently scheduled to take place over the through the night on these big exhibits for many more years. You may not feel like
following periods: driving through central London for ever, either. This could be my last chance to
enter Chelsea.”
23 November 2020 for four weeks 25 January 2021 for seven weeks
The entry goes off to Vincent Square in
NOTE: Currently there are no planned closures between Monday 4 and Friday 22 October. The leaves are coming off the
January 2021, due to a road closure taking place on the local authority network Crimson Glory Vine fast now, so despite
near Blandford St Mary, where the diversion utilises the A31. Should these utility the fact that I will not hear for several
works be postponed/cancelled, we will bring forward the start of the 2021 weeks whether I have a place in the
closures. For the safety of our workforce and customers, we will need to close the competition, I start to make the masks
A31 east and westbound carriageways between the Bere Regis roundabout and of comedy and tragedy from vine
the Roundhouse Roundabout (Sturminster Marshall) overnight between 9pm and leaves layered on to resin masks,
6am, when there are fewer vehicles on the road. Between 6am and 9pm the road sealing them with liquid resin until they
will be open, and access will be unrestricted. dry like carved wood..
During the closures a signed diversion will be in place via the A35 and A350. In In December, a letter from the Royal
addition, crossing points at Almer, Worlds End Pub and Red Post will be in place Horticultural Society tells me that I have
using temporary traffic lights for residents to be able to travel north/south across a place in the first competition for
the A31. Access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles during the Chelsea 2006.
closures; all drivers must observe the reduced site speed limits for our workforce’s
safety. Through the winter, I stage a rough mock-up in the garage which gets arranged
and re-arranged on numerous occasions.
The planning of all roadworks is led by safety – for both road users and our
customers. We appreciate that road closures and delays can be frustrating, but May comes round very quickly, and we set off for London with a car loaded with
would ask for your cooperation during these closures, and advise that abuse flowers and equipment. It is getting dark as we drive slowly across the
towards our workers will not be tolerated in any form. Please note that these works

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