Dorchester Historical Society : The Historical Society’s Christmas Miscellany

We’re back!!

A DATE FOR THE DIARY – Wednesday 24th November at 7.30pm in the Abbey.

The Historical Society’s Christmas Miscellany

To celebrate our emergence from pandemic restrictions, we invite you to come and join us for drinks and nibbles and to hear from three local authors about their latest books.

Peter Adamson will be talking about his book Landmark in Time: the world of the Wittenham Clumps.

Margot Metcalfe will be talking about the just published 50th anniversary edition of A Yankee in an English Village, the remarkable Edith Stedman’s memoir of her time in Dorchester.

James Pratt will talk about his book Through the Gears, Through the Years which describes his career in motor sport against the background of his family’s life in Dorchester

There will be a chance to buy the books at the end of the meeting, or at the Museum’s Christmas opening, and to hear about our programme for 2022. We have some really fascinating talks coming up.

Books make perfect Christmas presents, particularly for those with an historical bent, so come along and support local authors.

ALL WELCOME

Preschool New – October 2021

Dorchester Pre-School has had an excellent start to the new school year, with lots of new starters all settling in well. It is wonderful to see the children so happy to go into the preschool each morning!

We do have some, limited, spaces for new starters so please get in touch with Helen at manager@dorchesterpreschool.co.uk for more information, or to arrange to be shown around the setting.

The AGM for preschool is on 20th October at 8pm (enter through the preschool), if you missed it but would like to get involved please contact us to let us know; we are always happy to have more volunteers and support – it takes a village to raise a child after all!

We are hoping to run a sponsored walk for the children around the local farm soon, so keep a look out on noticeboard and the Facebook page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/dorchesterpreschool/

We are happy to accept donations of things that we might fid useful, at the moment we are on the look out for old pots and pans for the children to use in the mud kitchen.

For more information contact Rach at secretary@dorchesterpreschool.co.uk

Garden waste collection

Please see https://www.southoxon.gov.uk/south-oxfordshire-district-council/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/garden-waste/gardenwastecollectionchanges/

This month’s Garden waste collections from Dorchester-on-Thames were on Friday 8th October and the next will be on Friday 22nd October.

From the detailed list it looks like all streets are included but let me know if you see one that is missing:

Abingdon Road Beechcroft Bridge End Crown Lane Drayton Road Haven Close Herringcote High Street Jemmetts Close Manor Farm Road Martins Lane Meadside Monks Close Overy Oxford Road Page Furlong Queen Street Queens Close Rotten Row Samian Way Tenpenny The Limes Watling Lane