Marquis of Lorne, Nettlecombe, Dorset pub guide
Meet new Dorset pub landlords Steve and Tracey Brady of the Marquis of Lorne in Nettlecombe near Bridport. Tracey and Steve talk about some of the immediate changes they've made and some of their likes and ambitions, before reflecting amusingly upon their role in what is quite possibly the Bridport area's first online video pub advert. The Marquis of Lorne is owned by Palmers Brewery of Bridport, and serves three of their real ales (Copper, Best, and 200). The pub building is 16th century, and sits on the edge of one of Dorset's prettiest villages, looking over the valley towards Powerstock. There are 7 guest rooms. The pub has a large car park, and popular children's play area. Every November 5 it hosts a large bonfire night, with profits going to local organisations and charities, and on Boxing Day there is an entertaining and often surprisingly speedy pram race.
Short walk round Nettlecombe and The Marquis of Lorne pub
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Marquis of Lorne Bank holiday 1992 or 3
How a pub was run, getting the locals involved in games and not just putting up a big TV screen and showing football.
Dorset Winning Women
A powerful community of women in business
Dorchester to South Poorton
Along the line of a Roman road as far as Eggardon Hill, then through the village of Powerstock
The Knights Shooting In Dorset
Nailing it
04052014 Eggardon Hill descent approaching Powerstock
Dorset 2009 Spyway, Bridport, Lyme Regis
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Was there ever a Dorset cider? Part 2
Cider apple expert Liz Copas tackles the big Dorset cider question. She and Dorset cidermaker Nick Poole spent every autumn from 2007 to 2010 hunting for apples from old Dorset orchards.
All they really had to go on, in the way of written evidence, was a short list of eight or nine apples left by a man from the Ministry of Agriculture in the 1930s. As Liz says, this man was sent to Dorset to see if the county's cider output could be improved. He decided that it wasn't worth the effort.
Liz's view of what Dorset cider used to be like is a bit different to Nick Poole's. You'll have to watch the video and listen to what she says to get all the nuances, but broadly speaking her view is that cider in the west of Dorset was - historically - more like Devon's than Somerset's. It was much more of a farm industry. Many farmers didn't know or particularly care what apples they were using. They often favoured dual purpose apples, that is apples that could also be used as cookers.
Waste not, want not.
In Somerset, she says, choosing her words carefully, their tastes were a bit more sophisticated. Possibly because of influence from Herefordshire. Perhaps because there was a bit more to-ing and fro-ing from big houses. Maybe because of the efforts made by the early cider improver Robert Neville-Grenville at Baltonsborough near Glastonbury.
More northerly parts of Dorset - round Sherborne, for example - enjoyed cider more akin to Somerset's.
Or so it can be argued. As Liz says, very little was ever written down. That's part of the fascination of trying to work things out now.
And it's one of the reasons why in Spring 2011 more than 300 newly propagated Dorset cider apple trees are going to be planted across the county. One aim is to see what they do produce. See dorsetcider.com for more details. There's also information on realwestdorset.co.uk
This video was produced for Transition Vision's Farming Channel by the Bridport-based Watershed PR.
Liz Copas is talking to Jonathan Hudston of Watershed PR.
This video is the third in a series. Think of them, perhaps, as a Cider School. Not a shed or a surgery but a school.
Energy Cafe at Powerstock Common
On an extremely fine April day, the Energy Cafe was towed into the woods at Powerstock Common, West Dorset by Karl Edwards' majestic heavy horses. It was an event to publicise the campaign to open the old Maiden Newton to Bridport railway track as a Sustrans trail. The cafe as you will discover when you watch this video is designed to work off-grid as it needs no mains electricity or even bottled gas to operate. Food is sourced and foraged from within a 6 mile radius of the location of the cafe. It was designed as a collective effort at a gathering at Gunpowder Park in the Lee Valley in Essex but is now being further developed as a demonstration project by Amy Plant and Ella Gibbs. This Transition Vision video is the second featuring the Maiden Newton to Bridport trailway initiative: the first being a performance of Phil Minton's Feral Choir. Shot and edited by John and Sue Holman.
02 Pubs music Dorset to Devon
Live pub music in Dorset and Devon
palmers brewery tour by aligav
palmers brewery tour by aligav.
Dorset Wildlife Trust: Powerstock Common & Kingcombe Meadows with stockman Ashlea Kirk
Dorset Wildlife Trust's nature reserve Powerstock Common and Kingcombe Meadows Farm seen close-up with new stockman Ashlea Kirk.
Cattle-hunting, fence-testing, quad-bike riding, sheep-finding, bedding and feeding all feature.
Ashlea, who's 24 and grew up in Winterborne Whitechurch between Dorchester and Blandford, explains his own philosophy of farming and how Dorset Wildlife Trust looks after Powerstock Common and Kingcombe Meadows Farm, two of its most important properties.
This piece was shot and edited for Transition Vision TV's Farming Channel by Jonathan Hudston of Watershed PR. His is the other voice you can hear apart from Ashlea's.
And you might get the occasional glimpse of a muddy boot.
Otherwise nothing, because Ashlea is the star.
Bridport September Rifles Day 2011
Bridport offers the 'freedom of the town' to the Dorset Rifles Regiment
trimdon pram race for darcey
Symonds & Sampson
Symonds & Sampson LLP is a long-established firm of estate agents, auctioneers and property professionals serving Hampshire, Wiltshire and the West Country from 9 regional offices - Axminster, Beaminster, Blandford, Bridport, Dorchester, Salisbury, Sturminster Newton, Wimborne and Yeovil - together with The London Office.
Services include the sale of houses, cottages, farms, land, leisure and commercial property; residential lettings and property management; property auctions; building surveys and general valuations; machinery and livestock auctions; sale and lease of quotas; farm finance; estate management; planning and professional advice.
Northenden Pram Race
Charity pram race, in Northenden Manchester England. Believed to have been Filmed in 1977 Queen Elizabeth II silver jubilee year.
Pagham Pram Race 2008
English eccentrics at their best on Boxing Day
Palmers Brewery, Bridport: Sparging Real Ale
The mysteries and pleasures of sparging revealed by Palmers Brewery Head Brewer Darren Batten. Look out too for Paul Smith on the satisfactions of drinking hot wort.