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Merry Christmas
Wishing all of our visitors and supporters happiness over the festive season and into 2021.Your support has been invaluable to us throughout this difficult year.
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West Bay’s Silent Soldiers
On this Remembrance weekend, we look back at some of the individual stories of sacrifice, we have uncovered in some of our previous pop up exhibitions. In 2018 on the 100th Anniversary of the ending of the First World War we joined forces with St John’s Church, and Bridport Heritage Read more…
Guided walks and trails
A walk along the old railway line to West Bay
Although the railway line between Bridport and West Bay closed for passengers in September 1930 and for goods traffic in 1964 part of it has been converted into a popular cycling and walking route to West Bay. We pick the path up close to the Crown Roundabout on the Burton Read more…
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World Oceans Day 2020
World Oceans Day was celebrated on 8th June 2020. This year the theme is Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean. Please help protect our oceans from severe pollution. Plastic poses one of the biggest challenges to our oceans, more than half of the plastic ever produced has been manufactured in the Read more…
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Thank you to our Volunteers
It is National Volunteer Week from 1st-7th June and we want to say a BIG thank you to our amazing volunteers for the time and dedication they give us. We appreciate all they do to make West Bay Discovery Centre such a success. Last year our volunteers contributed a massive Read more…
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Washed Ashore Exhibition August-October 2018
Our first exhibition ” Washed Ashore” included stories of items that have been found on the beaches of West Bay. The exhibition also highlighted the problem of plastic pollution in our seas and included sea sculptures produced by children from Loders Primary School using plastic washed up on the beach. One Read more…
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Smuggling and the Dorset Connection
We had another packed centre for our talk ‘Smuggling and the Dorset connection’ on Friday by the Chair of Bridport Area Development Trust Trevor Ware We had some lovely feedback from those who attended: “Wonderful talk, well presented – very informative.” “Cracking evening on Friday, thank you so much for Read more…
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South West Tourism Excellence Awards 2019/2020
We had an amazing evening at the South West Tourism Excellence Awards at Exeter Cathedral. We were so proud to have been selected as one of the finalists in the ‘New Business Category.’ The Discovery Centre was one of a record 773 entries from the region, including Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bath, Read more…
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South West Tourism Award Finals
A bit of news to brighten our day we’ve just heard that the Centre has been selected as one of the Finalists in the New Tourism Business Award category of this year’s South West Tourism Excellence Awards – the region’s ‘grand final’ in tourism awards. We can’t believe we are Read more…
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Dorset Tourism Awards 2019
Exciting news, West Bay Discovery Centre is one of the finalists in the New Business Award Category of the 2019 Dorset Tourism Awards ! Many thanks to all those who have helped us reach this point. A record 146 entries were received from across Dorset, with 77 selected as finalists . Read more…