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The Golden Jubilee celebrations in Dorchester were a huge success and Ridgeway Radio was much involved.<\/p>\n

On Sunday 2nd June a Thanksgiving Service for the Queen’s 50 year reign was held in the town’s grassed Roman amphitheatre, Maumbury Rings – a wonderful venue for such an event because of its construction, although no doubt the Romans put it to other uses!<\/p>\n

The service was attended by all the town’s church denominations together with Town Councillors and representatives from many local organisations and was well supported by local people.<\/p>\n

The following day a musical event was held in the Borough gardens featuring Jiggery Pipery, the Purbeck Big Band, the Wessex Military Band and jazz combo ‘Four in a Bar + friend’. At 9 o’clock the Dorchester Carnival Band led a procession of hundreds to Salisbury Fields for the lighting of the Beacon – one of 1800 across the country.<\/p>\n

Ridgeway’s Andy Worth and Andy Venton were the PA sound engineers for both events. A recording was made of the Thanksgiving Service which patients at Dorset County Hospital heard later that day.<\/p>\n

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The Ridgeway Crew (pic courtesy Dorset Echo)<\/p><\/div>

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From the DORSET ECHO Letters page
21st June 2002<\/p><\/div>\n

Maumbury Rings and Borough Gardens<\/h3>\n

Click a picture to enlarge<\/p>\n\n\t\t