The queue for the free trip to Australia!

Weather vane at the rear of the Tolpuddle Methodist Chapel.

At the Martyrs Inn, Tolpuddle, for lunch.

They look happy and they are still on their first drink!

They must have known that members of The Stone Family were coming .....

..... and they even had a sign for the rest of us.

Cottages in Bladen Valley, Bryantspuddle, built early in the twentieth century.
Many of the houses in the village are constructed from specially hand made 'air-spaced' concrete blocks which were produced locally. These reduced the need for foundations and aimed to insulate by the air gaps and over 200,000 were produced annually.

St. Laurence's Church, Affpuddle.
One of Simon Jenkins' "1,000 Best Churches" this 13th Century church dedicated to St. Laurence stands in an idyllic situation on the banks of the River Piddle in the Parish of Affpuddle and lies in the Benefice of Bere Regis and Affpuddle with Turnerspuddle.

Cottages and the church yard at Puddletown.

Puddletown (formerly Piddletown) is a village in Dorset, England, 5 miles east of Dorchester in the River Piddle valley. The village has a population of 1,177 (2001), of which 30.3% are retired.

Puddletown was featured in the novel Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, where it was renamed as the village of Weatherbury.

A special shop display for Remembrance Day in Blandford. The poppy dress is interesting!

The sun goes down in Blandford giving the Georgian church tower a golden appearance.

Chimneys silhouetted on a blank wall.

Flamboyantly gothic chimneys of 'The Old House' in Blandford, one of only two buildings to survive the great fire of 1731. What was then a calamity is generally regarded by the current inhabitants as a blessing – and is commemorated by the following inscription to be found carved into the paving stones outside the Town Hall:

Recipe for regeneration:
take one careless
tallow chandler and
two ingenious Bastards.