The Visitor. Covering Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire
The Visitor. Magazine covering Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. Since 1983.
Alfred the Great’s legend lives on, 1,100 years after his death, because he had great PR! That’s the view of a King Alfred expert who will launch Shaftesbury & District Historical Society’s autumn talks programme. Professor Barbara Yorke will explain that, similar to today’s politicians, the Anglo-Saxon king was managing his media message. Full story: Read more
The 12th annual RNLI Michaelmas Fair is on 26-27 October at Port Regis School. For 2017, 100+ exhibitors providing great shopping in this wonderful venue! The Beckford Bottle Shop is running the bar, Bird and Carter from Wilton is bringing their amazing farmhouse café and espresso machine too, then outside we will have Big Bang Pizza, New Forest Steak Burgers and Pure Punjabi all with their delicious “street” food. £5 entry to the venue, under 16s free. Free parking. Disabled access. Hours: 26th October 12 – 7pm, 27th October 10am – 4pm. Entry fees and 10% of all sales to RNLI. Also: Family Cinema. Glitter Studio, Circus Skills, Forest School and Dorset Button Workshop.
A vast range of vintage scientific equipment from a private collector in Sherborne is to be sold by Lawrences of Crewkerne on 6th September 2017. Mark Deavin, a former RAF technician who later worked for the Plessey Marine Research Unit, started collecting scientific instruments in the mid-1940s and has since built up an enormous array of items including mineral tubes, Van de Graaf generators and all kinds of specialist electrical measuring devices. Full story: Read more