Luke Hayter
Leaping out of bed, the first thing Luke Hayter does in the morning is yoga, limbering up for a full day of activity at the Fitness Hub. This ball of fitness energy left Bridport Leisure Centre over a year ago Read more »
Catherine Taylor
Richard Mabb
The Dorset Spice Shed is more than just a shed. It’s Richard Mabb’s working-week home where he’s building on a love-affair with herbs and spices that started in childhood. Now based at Bridport’s Dreadnought Trading Estate, the business, which also Read more »
Sue England
Sue England’s father was an apprentice at Smith & Smith Gentlemen’s Outfitters in Bridport. When Mr Smith and Mr Smith died within a year of each other Sue’s family bought the shop, which she now owns with her sister and Read more »
Phil Verden
With his nose pressed up as close to the oven door as he dares, a young Phil Verden watches his mother’s Yorkshire Puddings rise higher and higher, wondering just how she manages it. Today, Phil attends to his own batches Read more »
Nathan Tuck
“I grew up in Dorchester, went to school there, but didn’t behave myself all the time. There was a new fire station being built, so I laboured there for a while. That’s when I first found out I wasn’t very Read more »
Katy Howell
“I love the mornings when I wake up and go downstairs before the kids are awake, knowing I have 400 brownies to make that day”, says Katy Howell, creator, cook and owner of Bayside Bakery. That’s pretty much every morning Read more »
Selwyn Holmes
Some people’s stories are destined to be entwined. Selwyn Holmes’s ship, carrying him as a two year old, with his sister and his mother from Canada, docked in the UK only days apart from Danielle’s, which brought her as a Read more »
Richard Payne-Withers
Richard Payne-Withers, owner of The Alleyways Antique Centre in The Art and Vintage Quarter of Bridport, first met his wife, Sam, disguised as a character from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was Halloween, she was dressed as a devil, Read more »
Zoë Marshall
Kingston Black, Ellis Bitter, Tremletts Bitter, Browns, Somerset Redstreak and Major; those in the know will recognise these as varieties of cider apple trees. All can be found in Zoë Marshall’s 10 acre orchard in Netherhay, which she has planted Read more »
Heather Upham
Around nine years ago, Heather Upham made a birthday cake in the shape of a horse’s head for her boss as he enjoyed hunting. The boss’s mum was so impressed with Heather’s work she invited her to come along to Read more »