DARTMOUTH APPRENTICE CELEBRATES AS ALL ITS APPRENTICES FIND WORK AT THE END OF SIX-MONTH PLACEMENT
Dartmouth Apprentice – the only training restaurant for the long-term unemployed in Devon – celebrated as all seven of its last crop of apprentices found work.
And one of them – Joe Fletcher – was selected as a management trainee at Deer Park Carvery by its new owner Gerry Skilton. Gerry heard about the Apprentice and its training schemes and offered to come down to the restaurant and conduct interviews with all of the apprentices as part of their training.
TV FAME FOR AREA Dartmouth has been getting a lot of TV interest in the last few months – businesswoman Lorna Churchill is to be featured on Homes Under the Hammer on BBC as she renovates and reopens a bar on the site of Bakers Bar in Victoria Road. The Great British Taste Tour edition which filmed last year with Mayor Paul Allen, Town Crier Lez Ellis and celebrity chef Mitch Tonks, aired in April. The area was featured earlier in the year on The Hungry
Sailors – Dick Strawbridge and his son James – which visited Dittisham after sailing past Dartmouth on the river. And of course Dartmouth has also been in the spotlight thanks to the arrival of Monty Halls and his family, who have opened up Great Escapes in Market Street. We all hope that this renewed media interest in the area will help to bring a bumper year!
He was so impressed he offered Joe the great opportunity
of being a management trainee. Joe was out of work for many months before coming to the Apprentice and said it was hard to find work with little experience.
And the restaurant has also welcomed a new group of trainee waiters and chefs. The group of eight have all been out of work for a long time, and will initially be with the restaurant for an eight-week period during which they will pick up basic skills in their chosen area, either front of house or in the kitchen.
NEWCOMEN COMETH The celebrations to commemorate the birth of Thomas Newcomen’s incredible steam engine are gathering pace - and those working to bring the 18th Century ironmonger, Baptist lay preacher and inventor of the world’s first practical steam engine, which kick-started the Industrial Revolution, are seeing all their efforts come to fruition. A new plaza is being constructed in front of the Newcomen
Engine - which is the only working original engine in the world – and it will open on May 22. Also the local Park and Ride Bus has been renamed Thomas Newcomen in honour of the 300th Anniversary of his great invention. Campaigners hope to follow this celebratory year by erecting a monument in his honour in the middle of the roundabout at the top of Dartmouth, ensuring every visitor sees it and understands how Newcomen is connected to Dartmouth.
DARTMOUTH MUSEUM GUIDEBOOK LAUNCHED
Dartmouth Museum celebrated the launch of its new guidebook in April - which aims to unlock the historical secrets of the town through an amazing virtual tour, created by authors Brian Parker, Angela White and Richard Dankwerts. “The guide was created to to allow those who can’t visit the museum to undersand what is inside the Butterwalk-based repository of all things Historical and Dartmothian,” said Brian Parker.
“If you are able to climb the pole staircase into the museum, you can follow the tour as a real experience. But some cannot and for them it was decided to write the guidebook in such a way that they could sense the character of the museum and view some of its displays. This meant an abundance of pictures, but this was easier said than done. The precious artefacts had to be extracted from their cases and carried to the makeshift photographic ‘studio’. The Curator, Brian Langworthy, did this with inexhaustible patience and good humour. Although the picture demonstrates well the size of the shark’s jaw, it is not in the guidebook. It was thought to be just a bit too frivolous for a learned treatise!
39 Actually, the words ‘learned treatise’ are an overstatement.
The guidebook has to be authoritative in describing the artefacts but it is also written in an easy style with anecdote, mystery and a touch of humour.” The guidebook (36 pages and more than 70 illustrations) costs £3.
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