Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Spring 2025 edition of our magazine. We are coming round to our next AGM and I need to be honest with all our members in that we are at a seminal moment for the Society. At the last AGM I made an impassioned plea for …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Winter 2024 edition of our magazine. On these wintery days when the light is in short supply it’s easy to get downhearted however this has been a good year. The Society managed to stage the Beating of the Sea Bounds in a new format which …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Autumn 2024 edition of our magazine. Where to start! The Society for Poole initiated, chaired and organised the 2024 Beating of the Sea Bounds of Poole and, together with Poole Rotary we added a twist with The Scaplen Court Players performing 2 vignettes and children’s …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Spring 2024 edition of our magazine. 2024 has started with a rush, we have finally managed to get our five heritage lights back on their plinths at the bottom of Evening Hill (see pages 10- 11). The organisation of Beating of the Sea Bounds on …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Winter 2023 edition of our magazine. As it again is the time of year for short afternoons and long nights, we reflect a little on the year that has gone and the year ahead. For the Society we have pressed ahead with two major projects, …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Autumn edition of our magazine. There has been quite a lot going on. With the Royal British Legion Hall in North Road shutting early we have been forced to move to The Con Club in Darbys Lane to hold our meetings. The first was an …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to this the Summer 2023 edition of the View from Poole and I hope you had a wonderful coronation weekend and didn’t get too wet. Congratulations to Jan Marsh for her work on the unveiling of the Blue Plaque to Louie Dingwall at Sandbanks which is now …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to this the Spring 2023 edition of the View from Poole. Time goes swiftly and we’re now well into 2023. Poole still feels a little dark and windswept, but things are changing around us. The new owners of the Barclays Bank building have erected hoardings and so …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to this the Winter 2022 edition of the View from Poole. It is getting dark again however I hope everyone is keeping warm in these difficult times, it won’t be long until Christmas and longer days – honestly. We remain committed to Poole’s heritage however things are …
Chairman’s Note Welcome to the Autumn edition of our Society magazine. It’s been a long dry summer but I hope everyone is well. The Jubilee garden parties are all a distant memory! Unfortunately, we didn’t have the numbers to make ours work so had to cancel the event however I …
