Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of Fordington Remembered: Growing up in and around Dorchester, two charities have received additional funding.
Author David J. Forrester recently presented cheques to the Rotary Foundation,which does so much good around the world,and Dorset ME Support Group,which receives little or no government help yet cares for those suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.
David says, ‘My wife is a Trustee of the latter and we support them any way we can, while I’m a Past Rotarian. We’re thrilled that the book has sold so well and earned author royalties, which are being shared between the two charities’.
David is now busy with a second book,working with Mill Street Housing Society recording memories of people who lived in the Mill Street area early in the last century.
‘This was an area where the very much disadvantaged of Fordington lived, often written about in Thomas Hardy’s novels. Once recorded these memories will be included in my next book, before they drift off down the Mill Stream, lost forever’.
Fordington Remembered is on sale locally and direct from publisher Roving Press (tel 01300 321531, www.rovingpress.co.uk), priced £6.99.
