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additional Environmental Health Officers to issue fish health export certificates to BERE REGIS HISTORY SOCIETY
the two main exporters in Dorset.

We held our September meeting on the
Fuel risk 25th at the Village Hall, North Street, and
began with our usual "News Section". This
While fuel shortages are covered several projects that members
not predicted or expected are undertaking and included
in Dorset, a fuel cell has documenting the history of pubs in the
been established to focus village for the last 400 years, a study of
on critical services with how our village was about 12,000 years
high vehicle dependency/ ago based on finds and detective work
fuel consumption. and then we learned of the continued study of the history of Woodbury Hill Fair.

Des gave a short talk about the finds from "Trench-7" near Butt Lane, which was
EU Settlement recently completed, and hinted at the promise of further finds from "Trench-8"
scheme recently begun. All this work is confirming our understanding regarding Bere
Regis's original burial place.
Dorset Council colleagues
are being kept abreast of national guidance and the latest information from Next we discussed the contents of a
Government through our existing communications channels. Colleagues are WW2 photo album donated to the
being signposted to the EU Settlement scheme. We are giving similar advice to Society which contains photographs
our suppliers and providers. Government has issued some guidance concerning from the Western Desert campaign of
people within our case who may wish to register through the scheme and further 1943. There are also photos taken in
guidance is awaited. Palestine, probably during an R&R
phase before the next action on Sicily

and Italy began.
Bere Regis to Dorchester Slip Road
Our secretary then paraphrased a
The west bound slip road to Dorchester, which is Highways England responsibility, newspaper article detailing the
has finally been resurface after over two years of lobbying. We all hope it lasts! observations of the Woodbury Hill Fair
of 21 September 1887 made by a

reporter on the Bournemouth
Surgery Guardian. It is the best, and so far only, account of the flavour of the fair itself,
and is of great value, as it describes the stalls, games and music and noise
We frequently and happily hold meetings with our constituents at a time and experienced by any one visiting the Fair.
place that is mutually convenient to one or other of us during the month. For
November we will respond to any email or telephone request to meet which we We then had a film show, testing the Society's new projector which can do videos
will hold either at a local village hall or at your home. Please ring or email us with at the click of its remote. This was a 30 year old showing of a John Craven
the subject matter so that we can prepare ourselves. Peter’s email address is Newsround Extra programme in which the Secretary appeared.
p e t e r w h a r f @ h o t m a i l . c o m 0 7 9 8 6 6 0 0 7 9 9 a n d L a u r a ’ s i s
cllrlaura.miller@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk 07814 569563. After this we stopped so that members could look at the exhibits and photos on
show, which included a 20-foot long joiner-photo of West Street from March 1989.
Peter Wharf & Laura Miller, Dorset Councillors for West Purbeck
If you want something a bit different on your fourth Wednesday of the month,
then do come along and be part of our Society.
John Pitfield, Project Secretary

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