25 YEARS AGO:

JANUARY 21 1994

FILMING: Students at Bridport’s Colfox School went in front of the cameras when shooting started on a video to show what life is like for youngsters growing up in west Dorset.

Over the coming weeks, pupils at Beaminster School and Lyme Regis Woodroffe School will take part in the video, which will help promote west Dorset as an area for jobs.

WORK DELAYS: Work on Bridport’s new swimming pool has fallen six or seven weeks behind schedule and overrun its budget by about £20,000.

First there was a leak in the concrete tank of the main pool, secondly the site foreman was ill, thirdly the winter weather was excessively wet, and the fourth reason was the building trade’s traditional Christmas and new year shutdown.

LIFE STORY: Memories of India will be recalled by retired vicar the Rev. Dennis Shaw when his life story features on television.

Mr Shaw, of Bedford Place, Bridport, has had to condense his 67 colourful years into a series of five-minute programmes entitled ‘My story’ to be shown on West Country.

50 YEARS AGO

JANUARY 17 1969

DONATION: In 19 months, Lyme Regis branch of the RNLI sent over £1,650 to national headquarters.

Announcing this at the Lyme branch’s annual meeting, the treasurer, Mr. W. G. Hanks, reported that in 1964, only £10 was sent from Lyme Regis.

PARTY: About 110 children attended the eighth annual party given by Lyme Regis branch of the British Legion in the Woodmead Halls.

The youngsters, all children of Legion members, enjoyed some mouth-watering goodies laid on by Mrs. H. Holman and her helpers. After tea, the children played games and enjoyed a film show.

BAY IMPROVEMENTS: Members of the West Bay Sea Angling Club enjoyed a most successful dinner and dance at the Greyhound Hotel, Bridport, where they heard 800,000 visitors came to Dorset in the summer.

In an amusing speech of welcome, chairman Mr. H. Pettet mentioned visitors came from outside Bridport and from as far away as London. He said facilities could be improved but he thought of the 4,000 visitors to the bay on a peak day in the summer, 3,999 of them would probably have been anglers.