Ice cream van visit helps care home residents remember childhood
‘Chilled-out’ residents at an East Dorset care home relived their childhood with a visit from a traditional ice cream van.
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Rare French fashion doll to be auctioned
A rare Parisian fashion doll, made around 1860, is the highlight in the next collectors sale at Lawrences Auctioneers, Crewkerne.
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Manor and ‘Ming’ on Open Day
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