TUESDAY 11 June 2013
6.30 REFRESHMENTS 7PM START
PARISH ROOMS BLANDFORD FORUM
Public Meeting
All Welcome
Keith Harrison, Public & Patient Involvement Development Worker (CCG) will be doing a presentation telling us the ways local residents can voice their views on newly formed Clinical Commissioning Group (Primary Care Trust)
Come and have your say!!
Find out more about joining your local Patient Group at one of these events:
DID YOU KNOW? YOU CAN JOIN THE ‘VIRTUAL’ PATIENT GROUP AT
YOUR LOCAL PRACTICE BY SIMPLY PROVIDING YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!
For more about these events contact Keith Harrison, Patient & Public Involvement
Development Worker – 07825 691508 / Keith.Harrison@dorset-pct.nhs.uk
We are looking for anything for the various stalls that we can sell or give as prizes such as books, unwanted gifts or household items you no longer have a use for, bottles of wine, cakes, plants, preserves etc, etc….
If you can help, please contact the following directly according to the items that you are happy to donate:
| Books | Jacky | 480 982 |
| Bric a brac | Sue Hughes | 488 855 |
| Cakes, bakes and local produce | Caroline | 458 557 |
| Plants | Peter | 453 470 |
| Raffle | Gyda | 450 649 |
| Tombola | Vanessa | 456 002 |
| Toys | Trudi | 480 568 |
For all other enquiries about donations, please ring Jacky Fairweather on 480 982
This is advance notice that next year The Gardening Club will be organising a Stourpaine Open Gardens event to be held on the 14th and 15th June (Saturday and Sunday) 2014. Please put these dates in your diary – more information will follow nearer the time.
DT11 Forum Community Partnership AGM
Held on Wednesday 10th April 2013 at 7.00pm,
Durweston Village Hall
Minutes
It may seem early days to let readers know that the Stourpaine Village Fête will be held in the village at the end of June this year. Hopefully the awful weather we have been having will be a distant memory and that visitors to the fête will be able to enjoy a great summer’s afternoon of entertainment. Apart from the more traditional stalls offering books, bric a brac, cakes, bakes and local produce for sale, a number of events are being organised for all to enjoy. Mr Mark Farwell will be bringing his two magnificent steam engines to the fête – a miniature version of the Great Dorset Steam Fair.
Also plans are in hand to welcome back to Stourpaine, the Shooting Stars Theatre Company who staged their own version of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” last year at the White Horse pub. This year they plan to stage their stage version of “The Wind in the Willows” at the fête. Other forms of entertainment will include a ferret racing, an impromptu dog show, a collection of vintage cars, tug of war and lots of entertainment for children.
With the Trailway now open between Blandford and Sturminster Newton, people will be able to stop for refreshments at the Stourpaine Village Fête.
Please put a note in your diary to come to the summer fête and help us make this fête a great success!
Durweston Bridge is located north-west of Blandford Forum in the Village of Durweston. It is a three-span masonry arch bridge carrying the A357 over the River Stour at the junction with the A350.
The bridge comprises of three round headed arches with triangular cutwaters. Elevations are ashlar with stone copings on top of the parapets. The bridge is restricted to alternate one-way traffic and controlled with signals.
The bridge was built 1795. It was designed by Joseph Towsey for H. W. Portman of
Bryanston and built so that roads crossing the parkland around Bryanston could be closed and the traffic diverted around the park boundary. The stone used is said to have been recycled from the demolition from 1775 to 1782 of Eastbury House. a huge grand design by Sir John Vanbrugh built from 1713 to 1738 for George Doddington and his nephew George Bubb in the parish of Tarrant Gunville.
A plaque on the bridge attests its construction date and authorship of the bridge. The bridge also bears a transportation plaque warning that persons damaging the bridge will be transported for life:
ANY PERSON WILFULLY INJURING ANY PART OF THIS COUNTY BRIDGE WILL BE GUILTY OF FELONY AND UPON CONVICTION LIABLE TO BE TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE
BY THE COURT
T. FOOKS7 & 8 GEO 4 C30 S13
The building is Grade II Listed reference 103125 (Durweston Bridge). Only 10 bridges on Dorset have this status.
The boundary between the parishes of Durwesto
n and Stourpaine runs along the centre of the carriageway crossing the bridge.
View the stourpaine.info | The North Dorset Trailway Network page for the latest update on the Trailway.
Sunday 30 June 2013 – Noon to 4 p.m.Now is the chance for you to help good causes in the village by donating unwanted presents or items you no longer have a use for!
We have started to make plans for this year’s village fete and are looking for a range of items we can offer as prizes or sell on the stalls at the fete. As yet we do not have a list of who the stallholders will be, can you set aside any items you would like to donate? A detailed list of where donations should be delivered will be announced nearer to the day of the fete.
The type of gifts we would welcome would be suitable to be sold / won on Book; Bric a brac; Cakes, bakes and local produce; Children’s Tombola; Plants; Tin hoopla and Tombola stalls.
If you have any queries about donating gifts, please contact Jacky Fairweather
on T: 01258 480 982.
With effect from 1 April 2013 the Parish Clerk to Stourpaine Parish Council will be:
Mr Paul Clark,
Keepers Cottage,
Holloway Lane,
Shillingstone,
Dorset, DT11 0SY
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