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Margery Hookings

I Found Ernest Hemingway in my Family Tree

Delving into family history has proved a rich seam for Margery Hookings. Her DNA experience confirmed what she already thought, but it was a message out of the blue which proved the most exciting.   I’ve been indulging myself while Read more »

Posted by MV on 10/01/2020
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100 Years of Folk Dancing in Bridport

This year, Bridport Folk Dance Club celebrated its one-hundredth birthday. Monty Crook and Gwenda Selley take Margery Hookings through the minute books from the club’s formation to the thriving group it is today.   It was Sir Thomas Beecham who Read more »

Posted by MV on 26/11/2019
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Dancing in the Community

Anna Golding went from being a landscape architect to a community dance teacher. Margery Hookings meets her to find out more. Photographs by Pete Millson   The joy of dance is everywhere.Whether you’re glued to Strictly, learning to tango at Read more »

Posted by MV on 26/11/2019
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Spirit of Place

Why is that some locations have a special place in our hearts? Is it the landscape, the people, the personal connection or the way some places can literally ground you to the here and now and also to the past Read more »

Posted by MV on 10/10/2019
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Land fit for Heroes

In 1882, legislation was started to enable Somerset County Council to acquire land for smallholdings. But it was not until the passing of the Smallholdings and Allotments Act of 1908 that Somerset began to create a smallholdings estate. Margery Hookings’ Read more »

Posted by MV on 10/09/2019
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Waffle – more than just talk

Margery Hookings is intrigued after receiving a phone call about an innovative project aimed at combating loneliness. She goes to East Devon to find out more. The wonderful sweet smell of waffles is the first thing your senses pick up Read more »

Posted by MV on 14/07/2019
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The Family Tree

A large group of us is sitting around a big table at Marsh Barn, on the outskirts of West Bay towards Burton Bradstock. I’ve been here before, to learn about family history with local expert Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard. I’ve done a Read more »

Posted by MV on 20/06/2019
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A Nest of Songbirds

Margery Hookings makes some musical connections when she discovers the raucous singing past of her local pub, The White Lion at Broadwindsor.   When folksinger and folklorist Nick Dow visited West Dorset with his wife in the late 1980s, it Read more »

Posted by MV on 14/05/2019
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The Sound of Distant Drums

Margery Hookings has a go at drumming and meets the founder of Organic Rhythm to find out her story I’m in the parish hall at Ilminster where there’s a drumming session organised by Organic Rhythm. The sound of friendly chatter Read more »

Posted by MV on 08/04/2019
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Into the wide blue yonder

Margery Hookings meets young Bridport man Luke Shirley who leads horse trekking tours of Mongolia Photograph © Steve Luck Photography (www.steveluckphotography.co.uk)   A lust for life and a quest for adventure have led a young Dorset man to set up an Read more »

Posted by MV on 10/03/2019
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