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Tea On The Bridge Day
Location: Dorset
Take Tea On The Bridge – August 2003
From: Amanda Fogg, Beryl Banks, Andrew Pastor with Christabel Pilz, Viv Watts, Christine Cresswell Mike Baker and others
We said our fond farewells to the Old Bridge in the spring. By August the New Bridge was complete – we had an all-new bridge with new memories to make. Children had already adopted it as a place to play. Villagers had already paused on it to watch the water of our nameless stream. Others who had experienced flooding in the past could hardly believe it was there.
So our New Bridge was there and deserving its very own celebration. If it was a ship we would have cracked a bottle of champagne over it. But as it is in Drimpton it seemed only right to TAKE TEA ON THE BRIDGE.
So, we arranged (with the agreement of all the necessary powers that be) a temporary closure of the roadway on the afternoon of the 31st August. Then we brought tables and chairs from the Village Hall, set them up, and prepared tea for the 80 or so villagers who came along to sit, to chat, to admire our bridge, and in the case of the children, mess about and get wet. In short, we made a new set of future memories.
Then at 5 o’clock we spread ourselves across the bridge and Jennie Banks took our photograph – A Portrait of Drimpton 2003 – an image to add to our ever-growing village archive.
Finally, we set about lighting our new bridge - not with lamps and electricity, but with loads and loads of nightlights in jars. No expense spared! Throughout the evening villagers stood around, chatting, being together, enjoying the chance of claiming our bridge for ourselves for (probably) one last time.
Click on the photograph to see us all!
(Nov 2003)
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