Sweet Sheep's Nose and Buttery Door: Sherborne's Lost Orchards

Name: Sweet Sheep's Nose and Buttery Door: Sherborne's Lost Orchards
Start: 2024-11-21T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Digby Memorial Church Hall, Digby Road, Sherborne, DT9 3NL

Schedule

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 02:00 pm

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Location

Digby Memorial Church Hall, Digby Road, Sherborne, DT9 3NL | Sherborne, EN

In Thomas Hardy's novel, The Woodlanders (1887), he describes the landscape around Sherton Abbas (Sherborne) as filled with orchards and the smell of apples. An iconic image depicts the hero, Giles Winterborne, standing with his specimen apple tree in the midst of the town. Elisabeth Bletsoe explores the little-known history of cider-making in the Sherborne area, using her own research and oral histories she has collected from local residents.
Speaker: Elisabeth Bletsoe
Elisabeth is Curator of Sherborne Museum and a critically acclaimed radical landscape poet. She has degrees in psychology and history (with archaeology and heritage) and taught in the extramural department at Cardiff University and for the Workers' Educational Association.
Doors open from 1.30pm. Refreshments will be served following the talk. Tickets: £5 on the door. Free admission for members of Sherborne Museum.