Start of the Dorset Poppy Appeal 2009

The opening day of the Dorset British legion .Met up with many old friends again and all looking forward to a bumper Poppy Appeal

Goodbye Mr Beeching return of Axminster Station to lat to save Lyme Regis Station

After all these years Axminster is at last getting its two platforms back . Much better idea than having to wait on a line outide the station near Chard for the trains to pass. Having seen the service getting busier by the month . The bridge is in place nearly there

An interesting talk at the Chapel

An interesting talk given by..... more to follow

TOWN BUS NOT DELIVERING

As a Councillor of the town I am very concerned about the Town Bus and its direction. I have described it as a less than satisfactory service with my concerns about the diminished quality of the 71 bus. I specifically referred to a permanent bus stop outside Hallett Court on Queens walk. I am also particularly concerned for the aged and often infirmed people of Hallett Court The only sheltered housing in town and the bus does not stop there on a scheduled stop. It has become an unscheduled stop. Because the stop is only a request going away from the town where is the sense in that. This happens when the bus visits the Cobb 11 times a day and Somers road 13 times.

Happy days on the sheep farm

Armed forces day 27th June 2009

A flag was raised for the forthcoming Armed Forces Day .President, Chairman and members of the of the legion were in attendance.

A visit to Tolverne Cornwall one which I have made many times.This one was on the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings 6th June

A reminder of those days
Tolverne is a small landing stage where members of the 29th Infantry left England to attack Omaha Beach. Tolverne is situated north of the King Harry Ferry crossing on the river Fal, again north of Falmouth, Cornwall.

The whole of Great Britain was a vast armed camp by 1944. For D-Day the British/Canadian's were held in camps from Bournemouth on the south coast all the way up to the north sea ports. The Americans used the west of Britain from Poole, Dorset all the way around the coast to Bristol, South Wales and Northern Ireland.

To load soldiers, their vehicles and equipment onto landing craft they needed 'Hard's' a place where LST's (Landing Ship Tanks) could drive bow first onto a HARD (beach) and open their doors and lower a loading ramp.