Two sets of audio recordings have been done in Sutton Poyntz, interviewing people who have lived in the village for a time - the recordings are available on the next two pages.

• In 2009, the Dorset AONB ran a project that it calls "Ridgeway Voices", as part of its "Ridgeway Heritage Project". The objective of this project was to record reminiscences of those who have lived for a long time in and around the Ridgeway area. The aim was partly to capture memories of times gone by (Oral History), and partly for the sake of recording the cadence of Dorset voices (Ridgeway Voices). Recordings of three of our villagers are available on the next page.

• Then in spring 2017, the Windrose Rural Media Trust worked with a group of students from Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA, now Atlantic Academy Portland) to discover more about the South Dorset Ridgeway. Ridgeway Radio was an audio project which Windrose undertook with the then South Dorset Landscape Partnership (based on the AONB and funded by HLF). For more information about Windrose, visit their website https://windroseruralmedia.org/. With the permission of the Windrose Rural Media Trust as copyright holders, recordings of seven of our villagers are available on the third page here. Via an interactive map, Windrose’s Close Encounters media trail takes you to local towns and villages through audio recordings, archive films and still images - https://windroseruralmedia.org/close-encounters/ from where you can find these and many other fascinating recordings.

In 2009, members of the Sutton Poyntz History Group received training in the use of the recording equipment, and conducted a number of interviews with people with long memories of Sutton Poyntz. The recordings were sent on to the Ridgeway Heritage Project team, who identified notable short extracts and short stories. We have kept copies of these recordings, which can be heard by clicking the links below:

• David Saunders (farmer at Northdown Farm)
  • Memories of first tractor (1 minute 30 seconds)
  • WW1 horse (30 seconds)
• Mary Goode
  • Hide & Seek, and apple scrumping (1 minute)
  • Incendiary bombs (1 minute 50 seconds)
  • Watching the mill workers (1 minute 20 seconds)
• Sue Wintle
  • Keeping a B&B (1 minute 40 seconds)
  • Memories of plumbing arrangements (1 minute 30 seconds)
  • Bonfire night (1 minute)
  • Deliveries by horse and cart (1 minute 15 seconds)
  • Keeping pigs (1 minute 50 seconds)

In the spring 2017, the Windrose Rural Media Trust worked with a group of students from Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA, now Atlantic Academy Portland) to discover more about the South Dorset Ridgeway. Ridgeway Radio was an audio project which Windrose undertook with the then South Dorset Landscape Partnership (based on the AONB and funded by HLF). For more information about Windrose, visit their website https://windroseruralmedia.org/. Via an interactive map, Windrose’s Close Encounters media trail takes you to local towns and villages through audio recordings, archive films and still images - https://windroseruralmedia.org/close-encounters/ from where you can find these and many other fascinating recordings.

With the permission of the Windrose Rural Media Trust as copyright holders, we include here links to audio recordings of seven of our villagers:

• Tony Heathershaw
  • Village tour - part 1 (3 minutes 58 seconds)
  • Village tour - part 2 (3 minutes 17 seconds)
  • Village tour - part 3 (3 minutes 11 seconds)
• Sue Wintle
  • Sutton Poyntz history (2 minutes 26 seconds)
  • Grandad's diary (3 minutes 53 seconds)
  • Family history (3 minutes 53 seconds)
• Barbara Harrison
  • Coming to Sutton Poyntz (4 minutes 7 seconds)
  • Sutton Poyntz natural world (2 minutes 7 seconds)
  • Sutton Poyntz memorabilia (3 minutes 12 seconds)
• Ann Kemp
  • Milling and farming (3 minutes 19 seconds)
• Tony Bugler
  • Childhood (2 minutes 29 seconds)
  • Beagling (3 minutees 47 seconds)
• Simon Grant-Jones (an award-winning blacksmith who lives and works in Sutton Poyntz)
  • Blacksmith - part 1 (5 minutes 25 seconds)
  • Blacksmith at work (4 minutes 38 seconds)
  • Blacksmith's tools (2 minutes 48 seconds)
• Bill Egerton
  • Village background (1 minute 36 seconds)
  • Iron Age (3 minutes)
  • Farming links (2 minutes 57 seconds)
  • The village pond (4 minutes 45 seconds)
  • Doctor's story (2 minutes 26 seconds)
  • Sutton Poyntz history (4 minutes 34 seconds)
  • Sutton Poyntz - milling (7 minutes 34 seconds)