VARIOUS meetings of local history groups have been rearranged to go ahead online.

Two meetings scheduled for the West Dorset Group of the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society have now been moved to Zoom. The first meeting, a 'show and tell session' where attendees can discuss their childhood, schooldays and memories of family members will go ahead online from 2pm on Saturday, December 2. The meeting on Saturday, January 9 2021, which will look at Loders Court Estate between the years of 1799 and 1916, will also begin at 2pm.

The Bridport History Society will also be moving their events online, with their Tuesday, December 8 and Tuesday, January 12 2021 meetings taking place on Zoom. These sessions will look at independent travellers in the 19th and 20th centuries and Exeter in the 1700s, respectively. Both events will start at 2.30pm.

To join in with the zoom sessions, contact jferentzi@aol.com.