Page 51 - br-july-2019

July 2019 July 2019
Movement to Music at the Pop In Place on Monday Mornings
(Upper Hall ) BERE REGIS HISTORY SOCIETY
We are a friendly group meeting Mondays 9.30am for 40 minutes; it is for anyone Our May meeting began with the news of
who wants to take a little more exercise but is not mega fit. The sessions will be led the discovery of the original site of the
by one of our team with choreography background and designed especially for farm that we now know as Court Farm.
this client group with suitable music and movement.
The hot weather conditions of last
We are asking for a £4 fee per person per week.. You are very welcome to visit summer revealed several potential sites
the Pop In Place Community Café after the class for refreshments. for ancient buildings and this one was
confirmed after a field-walk during the
Come along and give it a try, you will be made very welcome. winter. The earliest pottery found in the
surface debris area was very late Roman,

so it could have been established near the end of the 4th century, or something
Pop In Place Community Café like 380 AD. The current Court Farm was established by about 750 AD when the
There is a warm welcome for all at the Pop In Place Community Café we operate church was expanded using some stonework, and the "Royal House" was
the café’s on Monday and Friday mornings 10am until 12 noon. On the Friday we originally built, all three being quite close to each other. The new finds are about
have Bere Regis Watercress at 50p a bunch when in season. There is a pound 150m to the East on higher ground.
shop set up in the foyer. If you live within the Parish and would you like transport Next we had a brief discussion and demonstration of
to the Pop In Place Telephone Alison 472023 who will arrange it for you .
Bere Regis bricks, having their origins at the Brick works
near Doddings, on the south side of "Brick Hill". That
brick works functioned between about 1580 and
Pop In Place Performers Group
1914, and bricks from that site can still be seen all over
We are currently on our summer break and will be meeting up again on Thursday the parish. Lego-bricks were shown to illustrate the
5 September at 6pm to work on our Christmas Production if you want to be in this techniques of "Flemish-bond", "English Long & Short
th
show please do e mail me straight away popinplace@gmail.com so that we are Work" and modern single-leaf used for cavity wall
aware. construction.
The lower age limit is 6 years old there is no upper limit. Tony then gave a fascinating talk on the Well in his
garden, which is about 90 feet deep and dates back

several hundred years at least. Documentary records
Pop In Place Little Acorns of about a hundred years ago were found in the 1983
book by William Lucas, who lived at the house. Also
A new baby and Toddler group at the Village Hall on Thursday mornings 10am three letters from 1940 showed that the well was serviced and repaired including
until 11.30 a new bucket which Tony brought with him to the meeting.
£1 per child and 50p for any subsequent children in the same family. We finished with a brief story of the progression of History and Antiquity groups in

Come along to this friendly group you will be made most welcome. Dorset, beginning with the work of Hutchins's books from 1774, to the Dorset
Archaeological Congress meetings in the 1860s, the formation of the Dorset
More details call Kelly 07743319856 Natural History and Archaeological Field Club in 1875, and finally in the Victorian
age, the building of Dorchester Museum in 1882.

Donations to the pound shop We meet on the third Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm at the Village Hall, and
all are welcome.
We welcome your kind donations of small items for our pound shop. We are
always in need of items to sale. Books bric a brac new to you clothing all must be John Pitfield, Project Secretary
good quality items please.

30 51