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Firkin Henry Sups 72 pints each week saving others from drink
Posted on 11:25am Tuesday 9th March 2010
“Keeps m'arm in with m'old cows for three hours of a Saturday, I does” - but the otherwise retired stockman on Cressroads’ Grange Farm is kept busy having his pint pot recharged 72 times-a-week to milk a Bridport brewery and divert hundreds of pounds of its profits to the Royal National Lifeboat Institute.
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Co-op has deadly plan to bring listed Alresford Post Office back to life
Posted on 2:31pm Monday 8th March 2010
Penny Black! As Cressroads’ Post Office moves down West Street to a far corner of ‘The Coop’ supermarket in town, a macabre possibility threatens change of use for the vacated listed building on West Street.
Mike Irving »
Continuing Story of Cressroads knows no bounds
Posted on 11:51pm Saturday 6th March 2010
A glimpse of a half-dozen Alresford souls alive as well as dead are resurrected to return to cyber space on the Ides of March as the town's three pharmacies wail: "We need no reminding."
Mike Irving »
Alresford Co-op Has More Secrets In Store
Posted on 9:21am Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Cryptic clue is 'Penny Black' as main Post Office closes in Cressroads
Mike Irving »
Story of Cressroads Returns to Cyber Space
Posted on 10:55am Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Ides of March see return of Alresford's Continuing Story of Cressroads, after pilot blog's 21,000 words spark popular BBC film.
Mike Irving »
FreddieBBC boxes clever with cast of Cressroads
Posted on 8:23am Sunday 10th May 2009
An Alresford blogger is invited to bring the founding cast for his Continuing Story of Cressroads, watercress capital of the world, before the TV cameras.
Mike Irving »
FreddieBBC wants to shoot Blogsbody on Broad Street
Posted on 8:38am Wednesday 18th March 2009
Blogsbody's Continuing Story of Cressroads tickles the fancy of BBC-TV,and its creators are cast with the cast of hundreds for the cameras.
Mike Irving »
Cressroads: Bloggy in window waggles its tale
Posted on 3:34pm Thursday 5th March 2009
Hampshire Radio risks inviting Blogsbody on air to announce delivery of the town hack's Continuing Story of Cressroads,with a cast of hundreds.
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Continuing Story of Cressroads
Posted on 11:43am Wednesday 18th February 2009
Given the order of a Chelsea boot from Cressroads' Bell & Bull, Old Blogsbody is called to the bar of The Arms at Tichborne, before heading west to the Welsh Valleys of Aalana, Hunny and Llantwit Major's Baby Jayne. Read on!
Mike Irving »
Burns toasted in Cressroads
Posted on 5:17pm Thursday 5th February 2009
Greater Cressroads Robert Burns' Appreciation Society, welcoming Sassenachs to its ranks in the watercress capital of the land, is grown out of a 250th Anniversary Burns' Supper and Order of Ceremonies at Alresford's Tichborne Arms.
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