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FREE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE News and Views from Charmouth The Building Known as... Page 20 Peanut Cookies New Homes Page 26 for Garden Birds - Page 44 The Great Wall Drone Adventure - Page 11 Professor Iain Stewart MBE Emeritus Professor Brian Fagan enjoying Shoreline - Page 36 on Santa Barbara Beach - page 34 See Sir David Attenborough’s Sea Dragon Up Close Page 36 Page 5 SPRING 2008 FREE Storm Force 12! by Colin Pring When gale force winds and a high Spring tide coincided on Monday 10 March Charmouth found itself in the path of a perfect storm. Mountainous waves pounded the beach and crashed over the Heritage Centre, filling the car park with boulders, tree trunks and other flotsam. One or two fool hardy fossil hunters braved hurricane conditions to search the base of the recent cliff slide on the East end of the beach, while Heritage Centre Staff and a few spectators were treated to an awesome demonstration of natures power. Winds gusting to hurricane force tossed two beach huts over like dolls houses and demolished a greenhouse in a garden off Wave over the Heritage Coast Centre Photo courtsey of Richard Edmonds Stonebarrow Lane. Berne Lane was closed for a while when trees blew Issue 1 down and a trampoline plucked from a lawn was dropped like Dorothys house in Wizard of Oz - the right way up in the middle of the lane. Whats Inside? From The Editor............................... 2 Many thanks to our contributors: Parish Council.................................. 2 Sarah Cooke Meirel Whaites Margaret Colby Plastic Bags Campaign..................... 3 Mike Hendrick Sam Scriven Ian Simpson Hilary Cleden Rev Anne-Marie Stuart Steve Pratt Quiz ~ Street Scene........................ 3 Colin Pring Chris Vincent Debbie Stork Chris Horton Dr Sue Beckers Polly Wild Parish Church................................... 4 Gardeners Plot................................. 4 Shoreline is published 4 times a year - Heritage Coast.................................. 5 Master Chefs TheSpring, Summer, AutumnFirst and Winter. 10 Years By the Shore..................................... 5 © Shoreline Charmouth Tel: 01297 560329 School News.................................... 6 Email: [email protected] Health and Well Being..................... 6 Post: The Moorings, Higher Sea Lane, Your Page........................................ 7 Page 44 PageCharmouth, Dorset. 8 DT6 6BD Wining & Dining/ Recipe................. 8 Sports............................................... 9 Shoreline is printed by Steves Print & Design, Seaton 01297 22602 Organisations................................... 9 To advertise in Shoreline National Trust.................................. 10 please contact Colin on 01297 561471 Village Diary....................................11 Local Contacts..................................12 SHORELINE SPRING 2018 / ISSUE 36 1 Shoreline Spring 2018 Charmouth Stores • The supply and fit of carpets, vinyls and luxury vinyl tiles The village to all areas of the home • Professional and courteous fitters store that • Furniture moved and old flooring lifted and disposed of • Leading brands and manufacturers has it all • Made to measure blinds and curtains • Always offering beautiful home accessories Chilled Food Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Craft Beer THE STREET, CHARMOUTH. 01297 560505 Freshly Baked Bread Confectionery Baking Ingredients Cigarettes and Tobacco Soft Drinks Great Wine Selection Frozen Food Spirits E-cigarettes A Family run Cafe Lottery Open until 9pm Cash Machine serving breakfast Herbs and Spices Household Products Local & National Ales lunch and afternoon Cakes and Biscuits Charcoal Scratchcards tea, homemade cakes Logs and Kindling Wood Groceries Gluten Free Section and cream teas. Hot Pies and Pasties Chilled Wine, Beer and Cider Medicines Traditional Sunday Lunch Local Products Seasonal Products Fresh Flowers (booking recommended). Contactless Payments Friendly Staff Ice Cream Located in the centre Independent Batteries Free Delivery Service of the village, a warm Greetings Cards LOTS OF Crisps, Nuts and Snacks welcome awaits. Bean-to-cup Coffee Machine OFFERS Part of the Nisa Family 01297 561600 The Street • Charmouth • 01297 560304 CUSTOMER SERVICE... Making your house move easier! e aim for the highest standards of customer service to enquiries and helping find missing documents. Dealing with Wour vendors and applicants, from our brochures, great issues and reducing stress in the selling and buying process photography, & accompanied viewings, to our feedback and is the mainstay of our job. We help with recommending support all the way through the sales process. 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Choose us for our local knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm, for all your purchases or lettings locally or out of area. 2 SHORELINE SPRING 2018 / ISSUE 36 Editorial Embrace your life journey provocative, we’ve loved them all. Please keep them THE SHORELINE TEAM with gratitude so that how you coming! Jane Morrow travel along your path is more Editor The magazine would simply not exist without the important than reaching your Lesley Dunlop ultimate destination. continued support of local advertisers, our silent Assistant Editor, Features and Diary partners, who have enabled us to grow the magazine Rosalene Glickman Neil Charleton into the hefty publication that it is today. Please show Advertising Manager and Treasurer Welcome to the 10th Anniversary issue of Shoreline. your gratitude to them by using the shops, the cafes, John Kennedy As I sit here in reflective mood, I’m feeling a range the pubs and the many other services which help to Design and Layout of emotions: immense pride that the magazine has keep our unique village vibrant and alive – it is now reached this milestone and has gone from strength even more important with the proliferation of often to strength, from a slimline 12 pages in 2008 to the empty second homes in Charmouth. whopping 52 of this issue; thankful for the privilege Lesley is a superb writer and her article ‘The First 10 of working with such a loyal, hardworking and [email protected] Years of Shoreline’, on page 8 brilliantly chronicles talented team as Lesley, John and Neil – we have The Editor, Shoreline, the evolution of the magazine over the past decade, The Moorings, Higher Sea Lane, developed a creative shorthand that just makes the whilst acknowledging the dedication of friends and Charmouth, DT6 6BD whole production really enjoyable and fun; and so colleagues who helped make my mad idea a reality touched by all the wonderful tributes throughout Shoreline, winner of the Dorset People’s all those years ago. these pages from readers, contributors and Project Award 2014 advertisers. So, dear reader, thank you very much for all the lovely comments and positive feedback over the I would sincerely like to thank everyone, who, We are so pleased you've reached years, they have been an inspiration to us all. over the years, has submitted articles which have a monumental 10th Birthday and you and the team deserve a BIG informed, entertained and educated us on such THANK YOU for such a great a wide variety of subjects: amusing, poignant, magazine, which is a brilliant source of local news, information and articles of interest to all who live here...and those that don't! IF YOU WOULD LIKE SHORELINE DELIVERED OR POSTED TO YOUR DOOR, PLEASE CONTACT THE EDITOR. THE COST IS £6 PER YEAR. Sheila Gilbey, Abbots House Deadline and Issue Dates SUMMER ISSUE – deadline 18th June, in the shops 16th July. for Shoreline 2018 AUTUMN / WINTER ISSUE – deadline 5th November, in the shops 1st December. Charmouth Events Monday 31st December – New Year’s Eve Fireworks As ever, we would be grateful for volunteers to help at the Last July the Charmouth Events Committee was formed events so keep a note of these dates. and we have overseen three successful events and only one cancellation. The August Party in the Park, Firework A surprising amount of work is going on in the background night and the Christmas Fayre all went well, though the New Year’s Eve fireworks had to be cancelled due to the as we prepare for this year’s events, including getting new weather. Several local organisations received donations barbeques made, selecting and booking bands, improving in October as we made money at the three successful lighting and signage at the Parties in the Park, auditing the events. Fayre hut contents, sourcing a better firework supplier and reviewing power needs and safety issues. THIS YEAR WE ARE CURRENTLY PLANNING FIVE EVENTS: We are always interested in ideas for new events Sunday 27th May – Party in the Park and we are currently looking at whether
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