As stated in the October Pennant the Parish Council had been made aware of an application to remove the current post box, located in the conservation area at the Old Post Office House, Bradford Abbas, and the installation of a new post box in Churchwell Street.

Bradford Abbas Art Show

18th–19th November, 10am-4pm

At The Old Mill House, Mill Lane, Bradford Abbas (behind the school)

Bradford Abbas History Society meetings this month are to be held on  

• 28th November Tuesday afternoon at 2.30pm and 
• 30th November Thursday evening at 7.30pm 

in the Village Hall.

The talk will be on THE GLOVING INDUSTRY, presented by Joseph Lewis. Joseph will also bring a selection of period trade tools we can hand around from Yeovil Heritage Centre.

MEMBERS FREE, VISITORS (WELCOME) £2.

As stated in the October Pennant the Parish Council had been made aware of an application to remove the current post box, located in the conservation area at the Old Post Office House, Bradford Abbas, and the installation of a new post box in Churchwell Street.

Press release: Royal Mail blunder closes village post box

Royal Mail have sealed up the post box in Bradford Abbas against the wishes of the villagers and to the anger of the Parish Council.

The post box in question is set in the wall of the Old Post Office building in the centre of the village which changed hands recently.  The occupiers of the building, which no longer operates as a shop / post office, asked Royal Mail to seal up the post box earlier this year.

The playground is monitored by a rota of volunteers to whom the Parish Council is very grateful. 
The volunteers inspect the condition of the play equipment, reporting back to the Parish Council. They also empty the litter bins situated in the playground as these playground bins are not the responsibility of Dorset Council. 

The residents of The Old Post Office in Church Road, that used to be our village shop, have obtained planning permission to change its use from a mixed residential / business premises to a purely residental one.

The decision was made by the Dorset Council Northern Area Planning Committee on 15th May in a meeting held in the Exchange in Sturminster Newton.

You have probably seen articles in the press recently about the need to protect yourself against a potentially deadly virus spread by ticks now present in Dorset.

Walkers have been at risk from the bacterial tick-borne Lyme disease (several years ago my GP spotted the tell-tale signs in the nick of time) but tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is a new threat we should be wary of.