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Kites Hill Coppice OBITUARIES

Whilst Football was his big love - he also played cricket for the
 Unseasoned Hazel Firewood - £100/load village team, occasionally keeping wicket, and in 1955 Bere got to
the Dorset minor cup final at Hardy’s ground in Dorchester and batting at no
 Bean poles - £1 each 7 scored a rapid 50 to help Bere win the cup for the first time - which led to a
celebration on their return to the village in the Drax Arms.

 Pea Sticks - £7 bundle of 10 Village life was very different then and he regularly attended the dances at
the Drax Hall which is where he met Irene and on one occasion when
walking Irene home to Egdon Close he was met with her mum who shouted

out the window - “you can come in now Irene “, however that wasn’t
enough to put him off, and they were married here in St John the Baptist
All on sale Now! church 61 years ago today.
After the wedding they moved in to 13 Egdon Close and Paul was born on 23
John Sweeney August 1966 and Reg joined the Fire Brigade in the village as a Part time
Fireman following in the footsteps of his older brothers to which he served for
07732 970484 25 years and was also a full-time fireman at the Army Fire Brigade at
Bovington Camp
In 1979 the family moved to the newly built Manor Farm Road and number 2
MORE THAN A MOVIE has been his home ever since.

Reg was a member of the Royal British Legion and the Sports club here in the
Village and spent many happy times in both clubs either playing or watching
Death on the Nile sport or enjoying the weekly entertainment at the clubs, socializing with many
Friday 13th May 2022 at 7.30pm of his friends both new and old.
Village Hall, The Causeway, Milborne St Andrew Reg and Irene would enjoy holidays to Scotland and their annual coach
DT11 0JX weekends to Blackpool and LLandudno were highlights of the year, letting
their hair down and having fun with their friends.
Doors and bar open 7.00pm
Tickets cost £5, which includes a drink or an ice- He would spend many an hour taking and watching Paul play football, he
cream didn’t miss many games as his love of football continued, he also would do
the scoring for the cricket club something he really enjoyed along with being
This month’s movie is an acclaimed remake of the old part of the Club.
Agatha Christie classic 'Death on the Nile with star
studded cast Directed by Kenneth Branagh, who plays Belgian sleuth Hercule Reg was a Preston North End fan, and when he
Poiroit whose Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a was talking about football there was nobody like
terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic the Great Sir Tom Finney, a player Reg admired,
honeymoon is tragically cut short. and for his retirement Paul took him to watch
Preston and arranged for him to meet Sir Tom - and
Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza a day he would never forget.
pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a
cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists He was a proud family man and he and Irene
and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking denouement. were overjoyed in 1998 with the birth their first

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