Property Round Up By Helen Fisher

Towns on Santa’s Sat Nav By Helen Fisher

BRIDPORT £450,000 BRIDPORT £900,000

A substantial Grade II listed Georgian house with 3 bedrooms and decorative original features plus family sized bathroom with roll top bath. With 2 double bedrooms and an impressive main bedroom with duel aspect windows. Low maintenance, west facing courtyard garden. Centrally located.

Goadsby Tel 01308 420000

A substantial 4 bedroom Grade II listed handsome detached house, built in 1710. Arranged over 3 floors, recently refurbished yet retaining many original features. State of the art wi-fi system, ideal for home working. The gardens and grounds are fully enclosed and feature a contemporary eating area, pizza oven, jacuzzi, parking and double car port.

Symonds and Sampson Tel: 01308 422092

COLYTON £600,000

A detached Grade II listed 3 bedroom cottage in the heart of the town. Stylish and beautifully maintained throughout. Triple aspect kitchen with vaulted ceiling, flagstone floor and electric Aga. Cosy snug with fireplace, wood burning stove & exposed ceiling beams. Very private garden and no onward chain.

Gordon & Rumsby Tel: 01297 553768

LYME REGIS £425,000

An end of terrace 3 bedroom Edwardian home, extended to include a small south-facing balcony. Featuring bay windows, picture rails, wooden doors and floors and original fireplaces. Good sized gardens on 3 sides including a driveway, parking and an attached garage. All set in a tucked away location overlooking the River Lyn. No onward chain.

Kennedys Tel: 01308 427329 DORCHESTER Offers over £650,000

A beautiful Victorian 4 double bedroom family home in the heart of the town overlooking Borough Gardens. Many traditional features inc: Leaded light windows, high ceilings and fireplaces. With 3 bathrooms, one with a roll top bath. Large cellar/basement area used as a family room/home office. Southerly-facing rear garden plus garage and parking.

Meyers Tel: 01305 259436

WEYMOUTH £695,000

A unique converted chapel with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms designed by a prestigious architectural firm in 1895. Featuring a 39ft open-plan living room/kitchen with a classic vaulted ceiling and beautiful stained glass leaded light stone mullion windows. Private courtyard garden and allocated parking. A few minutes walk from the Esplanade.

Stags Tel: 01308 428000

Jane Silver Coren leading the singers

LIVING in Bridport while directing a play in London might seem too tricky to manage, but it turns out the ingenuity of the town made Bridport perfect. The play, A Common Woman, by Mary Rensten, produced by local director Margie Barbour, was originally at the King’s Head Theatre in London, in 1984. It was perfectly timed. By then Greenham protests had touched the lives of so many families; thousands of women had visited, taking bottles of whiskey and a fruitcake as Margie and her mother had, or sleeping bags and tents, staying to join the protest. And this play explored the issues about why A Common Woman would join them. Lindsey Coulson (Carol in EastEnders) plays Jean, an “ordinary woman”, and her own daughter Grace Coulson Harris plays her daughter in the play. Frankie Golding, who was the lead in the community play, Flea, turned out to be ideal for the part of Richard, the son of the family, and James Barriscale plays the dad Bill.

The creative potential of Bridport has proved endless. Talking to a friend about the difficulty of finding a photographer in London, she produced her son, Will Tyler, who took photos of the first meeting of the cast at the King’s Head. Recording the Greenham Common songs like After the Bomb and Take the Toys from the Boys was a challenge. But Jane Silver Coren and Rob Lee did a wonderful job when 20 women turned up to sing on one of the rainiest, windiest nights this Autumn.

Tracking down Lesley MacIntyre, to give permission to use her photograph of the women at the gate, was very difficult. Margie explained ‘I am so very grateful to all my friends, especially Joan Crawford, who was the co-director of the King’s Head when I was Assistant Stage Manager in 1971, for using the web network of the telephone tree (now an email trail) to find her! This play commemorates when 350,000 women “Embraced the Base’ in December 1982, and so this is a contemporary example of the reach of the telephone tree. Discussing projecting Lesley’s fantastic image resulted in Tristan Allsopp lending us his projector.’

Margie added ‘Working on a play about the dangers of nuclear war, while Putin is terrifying the Ukrainians and the rest of Europe with the renewed threat of using nuclear weapons, has made the play even more important, even more relevant to us right now.’

There will be a rehearsed reading on Sunday 18 December and Monday 19 December at 7.00pm at the King’s Head Theatre, Upper Street, London N1. Tickets from 0207 226 8561. https:// kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/a-common-woman

The play needs a 1980’s TV set, so if anyone can produce one of those that will be the cherry on the cake.