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
- 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)