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Edition 12

Published by: Debbie & Stephen Corney at Dorset Publications

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Copy deadline for March edition: 23rd February 2012 Disclaimer: Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that data in this publication is accurate, the publisher cannot accept any liability to any party to loss or damage caused by errors or omissions resulting from negligence, accident or any other cause.

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Well we certainly have some cold weather at the moment… though not as bad as that in Russia where I heard it is as low as –32°C! We have been pretty lucky so far this year and I have to admit that, being a Northern lass, I quite like a bit of snow, throwing snowballs and making snowmen. In fact a holiday I have never had and only dreamed of is one in the French Alps surrounded by snow, in a log cabin with a large open real fire. I will put that on my list for Santa next year! Now back to reality, we have a full little book this month. There are many trades people here as well as other shops and services to help you. Fab Frocks have some really wonderful dresses on pages 10 and 11. Custom World have some wonderful bedrooms on pages 6 and 7. Philip Mills can give you the exact hair style to suit your face and skin colour — pages 14-15.

There are plumbers, gardeners, blinds, computer repairs, hand made toys and even a chimney sweep all inside! The index at the back gives you a full list of all the services inside. Do mention The Poole Directory when you make any calls or bookings.

This makes all the difference and I thank you for this. If you have an event you would like to promote, we can do that for you for free. If you have a business and would like to be included please give me a call. Our rates are great and we offer free editorial for three month bookings.

Congratulations to the winner of the bottle of wine… there is another one to win this month.

Stephen and I wish you a great month of February.

Best Wishes,

Debbie

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200 Gardens Designed & Built Your own In House Designer Your own Project Manager 3 Design Options including Free Design and Estimate Call Now 01258

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Custom World 30th Anniversary Custom World is a well-known and respected local Company. We are proud to be celebrating our 30th Anniversary this year and we plan to make it a year to remember.

We are also excited to announce an opportunity for anyone living in Dorset, Wiltshire or Hampshire to have a bedroom or home office designed and installed free, up to the value of ÂŁ3000.00.

We would like to invite people to write or email us nominating a friend or family member, telling us why they deserve to have their bedroom or home o ffice transfo rme d with b e a u t i f u l c u s to m m ad e f i t te d furniture.

The lucky person chosen by our panel of judges will receive a Design consultation and work with the designer to create the room of their dreams. Their furniture will then be m anufacture d by o ur te am o f professional joiners and then installed by our in house fitters.

They will be able to choose any colour and design from our vast range and if they wish, they can visit our workshop to see their furniture being made.

Please send nominations to: office@customworldbedrooms.co.uk or 38 Cobham Road, Ferndown Industrial Estate, Wimborne,BH21 7NP, to arrive by 28th May 2012.

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GET PAID TO SHOP AND KEEP YOUR PURCHASED ITEM

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18-19’s (Think 25), Over 20’s for SUPERMARKET, DIY ASSESSMENT VISITS You must have Internet access, some spare time, own transport (not essential) Please apply using electronic application form at www.tnsmysteryshopping.co.uk

No CV required – please ensure you list where you saw the advertisment

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The only kind of cowboy outfit you ever want to see in your home…

Find a Trading Standards Approved Trader at www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk

or call 08454 040506

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Prom Perfection

As thousands of teenage girls across the south start to gear up for their school proms, Bournemouth-based boutique – Fab Frocks of Westbourne is getting ready for the ‘Prom Queen’ rush.

The 2012 prom collection is now in stock with a choice of over 500 dresses, one of the largest collections of prom dresses in Dorset. Fab Frocks director Tracie Beardsley says: “A girl's first school prom has to be one of the most important social events in a teenager's calendar so get planning what you’re going to wear now!”

You’ll definitely be spoilt for choice at Fab Frocks with everything from beautiful Cinderella-style ballgowns to short and sassy 1950’s style prom frocks. So whether it’s long or short, fru-fru or plain, trendy or traditional, vintage or vamp – they’ve got the lot!

As well as so much choice, Fab Frocks also has over ten years experience specialising in prom dresses and has even been featured on television. The friendly staff can help you find the dress of your dreams as well as advise you on those all-important accessories such as handbags, jewellery and tiaras.

Tracie Beardsley adds: “Because we know the most important thing is to get you looking a million dollars for your prom night, we offer dresses that suit all shapes and sizes. We are one of the only boutiques in the country, let alone the county, to offer size 2 prom dresses in some of our collections. Our size range goes from 2 through 20 and up to a size 26 by special order.”

“We know how important your prom is so at Fab Frocks we keep a register of every dress we sell for each prom event. To help reduce the risk of seeing another girl in the same dress, we aim not to sell the same style in the same colour to anyone else at your school. And don’t forget – our prices are competitive with the high street stores and you won’t see rail upon rail of the same dress!”

Fab Frocks has also teamed up with top mobile hair and make up consultants Brideshair.co.uk and Model Makeovers to offer prom girls discount when they book a group hair or makeup session for four or more.

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American style prom dresses by Mori Lee are now available exclusively at Fab Frocks

Fun and flirty prom dresses are now available at Fab Frocks of Westbourne

Fab Frocks of Westbourne 17 Seamoor Road, Westbourne, Bournemouth BH4 9AA. Tel: 01202 765352 Visit: www.fabfrocks.co.uk Open: Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturdays 10am to 5.30pm. Also open every Sunday from 11am to 4pm throughout March, April and May.

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Shaped and coloured to suit just you!

You may have seen what you think is the perfect style, but is it right for you?

Philip and Lyn Mills focus on you to give a service that is different from many other hairdressers.

Lyn studied at Salisbury College and has over 8 years experience. Her specialist training in colour analysis enables her to look at your skin tone and eye colour to create a colour match to suit.

Philip has over 27 years experience and has travelled around the country teaching workshops and running seminars. He works with your hair to create a style that suits the shape of your face.

They also offer a wedding service that can be experienced in the salon or Philip can travel to you.

Philip Mills Hair Design Salon provides a warm, relaxing atmosphere and has now been in Wareham for over 7 years. The salon's popularity has increased with many clients travelling long distances to receive expert service and advice.

Philip and Lyn have grown the business and developed a large client list which extends beyond the borders of Wareham, receiving clients from as far as France and Italy! Their name has become well known across the south for superior quality of work.

They pride themselves on having the most up to date education in the hair industry and offer both modern and contemporary styles.

They specialize in hair cutting for all ages and gender, styling, creative colouring, highlighting, scalp treatments, corrective colouring and wedding parties.

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Salon premises at 49 North St, Wareham

Philip Mills, Creative Director

Lyn Mills, Colour Technician

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Have a new look for spring!

Philip and Lyn Mills provide a wealth of experience that will make your visit to the salon a memorable one.

The moment you arrive at Philip Mills Hair Design, you will receive a warm welcome from our friendly staff and get to enjoy an atmosphere that is both relaxing and comforting.

Lyn works with your skin tone and eye colour to ensure the right colour to suit you and then Phil works the cut around your face shape giving the very best result that is personal to you!

Complimentary Rombouts Coffee or Fruit and Herbal Teas will be provided.

Rent a chair Have you got clientelle and want to expand your business?

We would would like a professional stylist to join our business and to help grow theirs.

All enquires in the strictest confidence.

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We are often surprised that people who love their classic and have often rebuilt it at a cost beyond its worth are happy to allow the inevitable process of decay to start again even as the restoration is complete. Or worse still, they never use their car in case it rains!

Get it treated by us, use it and enjoy it. Even those of you with fibre glass classics beware - these cars can so easily lull you into thinking that because they look great cosmetically, that they are sound structurally, until that is, the MOT tester discovers the rot.

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When Princess Elizabeth became Queen You’ve got to be at least 65 if you can remember when the Queen succeeded her father, King George VI on 6 February 1952. And what a different world it was then!

I vividly remember the moment on that cold February day when I switched on my radio at midday and heard absolutely nothing! Turning up the volume I could just hear the muffled noise of a bell tolling. Telling a neighbour my radio had gone wrong, I received the answer: ‘Oh, the King is dead!’ Oddly, that was how the radio ‘Home Service’ dealt with that momentous news!

Today, of course, televisions and radios would be jabbering non-stop – but in those days everything was so, so different.

N ot on ly was it a world with ou t televisions (except for a very few), but also a world without supermarkets, motorways, credit cards, detergents, microwave ovens, central heating,

Radio in 1950s was a family affair

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washing machines, computers, plastics, mobiles - and most people didn’t even have phones in their homes either.

It was a world when everything closed up on Sundays (and most shops had an ‘early closing day’ in the week as well). It was a world when sugar was still being rationed, although it was almost seven years since the war had ended. Murderers were still being hanged ‘by the neck until they were dead’, young men were being called up for National Service, people still had Identity Cards, and of course we all paid for our goods in good old pounds, shillings, and pence (remember those little robins on our farthings?)

There were so few cars on the roads at that time that anyone lucky enough to have a car could park anywhere they wanted – right outside any shop or building for as long as they pleased.

Rather naively, a Salisbury town planner in 1949 – just three years before the Queen’s accession – spoke of a novel idea of making ‘car stands’ (we would call them multi-storey car-parks), adding that ‘when these facilities are provided, the standing of cars in the central streets and in the market place should no longer be necessary.’ Notice that even the words ‘park’ and ‘car park’ weren’t in use! He quaintly calls them ‘car stands.’

In those days, of course, everyone used trains much more, even to get to the remotest villages – because almost every hamlet was within striking distance of our incredibly large and complex railway

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A 1953 farthing n etwork. Dr B ee ch in g h ad n ’t y et perpetrated his ruthless demolitions.

Steam trains were still pulling first, second, and third class carriages. What a class-system!

Clothes, especially for men, were dull and unimaginative, with white or grey shirts only. Menus were strictly noncontinental. No Chinese take-aways. Or Indian. Or anything else. Wives, on the whole, stayed at home and never had

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independent careers. Kids left school at 14. Sainsbury’s still had counters where you ordered your food from shop assistants.

As for world leaders, President Truman, Stalin, Tito, Mao Tse Tung, and Winston Churchill were still in office. And maps still showed countries such as the USSR, Ceylon, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Rhodesia. But people hardly ever went abroad for their holidays.

What will another sixty years bring?

Watch this space!

David Hilliam • • • • • • • • David Hilliam is a local writer and lecturer, and is Secretary of the Southbourne Literary Society. His latest books, The Little Book of Dorset and Tig’s Boys, are available in all good bookshops.

A car advert from 1953

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Index of Advertisers & Articles Articles 30th Anniversary for Custom World ................... 6 Prom Perfection.................................................. 10 Shaped and Coloured to suit just you! ................ 14 Truth About Drugs: Alcohol ................................ 26 When Princess Elizabeth became Queen ............ 28 Beds The Bed Store ..................................................... 3 Blinds, Curtains & Shutters Ashley Blinds....................................................... 5 Broadview Blinds ................................................ 21 Builders Excellence Homes ............................................... 12 Business Services — Human Resources Change Partner................................................... 23 Carpets & Flooring Carpet Barn ........................................................ 3 Marsden Flooring ............................................... 19 Southwest Flooring............................................. 9 Chimney Sweeps Oliver Chimney Sweep ........................................ 24 Classic Car Restoration Trickett Welding ................................................. 18 Clothing Bournemouth Jeans ............................................ 24 Fab Frocks........................................................... 11 Computer Services Whizzbits ............................................................ 22 Courses Overcoming Ups & Downs in Life........................ 26 Fitted Furniture Custom World..................................................... 7 Garage Services Castleman Auto Repairs ..................................... 16 Trickett Welding ................................................. 18

Jobs Mystery Shoppers Wanted.................................. 8 Kitchens Dream Doors....................................................... 1 Granite Transformations .................................... 13 Ladies Fashion Fab Frocks........................................................... 11 Landscaping Supplies Suttles................................................................. 12 The Stone Zone ................................................... 32 Letting Agents Coast Lettings ..................................................... 20 Lofts Loft Services........................................................ 29 Memorial Masons Minster Memorials ............................................. 8 Plumbing & Heating Services Dr Plumber.......................................................... 24 Harts................................................................... 20 J C Gas ................................................................ 9 PLH Heating Services .......................................... 18 TC Services .......................................................... 31 Property Maintenance Chatfield’s Property Services............................... 22 NMS Property Maintenance ............................... 21 Puzzles & Competitions Prize Wordsearch................................................ 25 Shopping Discover Westbourne.......................................... 17 Swimming Tuition Individuality Swimming....................................... 5 Toys The Purple Poppy ................................................ 27 Trading Standards Buy With Confidence........................................... 8

Garden Services BlueTulips.co.uk.................................................. 5 Chatfield’s Garden Services ................................ 22 Coppice Tree & Garden Services ......................... 21 Upton Tree Services ............................................ 26

Travel Insurance Age UK Bournemouth ......................................... 2

Hairdressers Philip Mills Hair Design....................................... 15

Windows Doors & Conservatories Richard Thomas .................................................. 19

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Utilities Utility Warehouse ............................................... 20

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