INTEREST continues to grow in a project to share memories of the Mill Street area of Dorchester.

Around 70 people turned out for the latest meeting held by the Mill Street Project team with new faces attending to share stories and photographs.

Organisers said they were unsure if the initial interest in the project would continue and were delighted to see it remains as strong as ever.

The event included a chance to enjoy a talk and demonstration from stain glass window restorer Jon Callan.

He is currently working on restoring the window removed from the old Mission Hut that originally stood in Mill Street.

The hut was later removed from Mill Street and relocated to Broadmayne, where it was used as a scout hut for some years.

The Mill Street Project team believed the hut may have started life at the prisoner of war camp in Dorchester during the First World War but they are keen to hear from anyone who has more information.

When the hut's window is restored it is hoped it will be returned to Mill Street.

It will be put on display in a light box outside the next houses that are built by the Mill Street Housing Association.

David Forrester, author of the book Fordington Remembered, said: "As always on these occasions we were treated to a little nugget of information that we had not heard or seen before.

"The meeting was attended by Mr and Mrs Jarvis, John and Hazel obtained special permission and were the last couple to be married in the old Mission Hut in August 1957.

"The wedding photos were probably some of the last taken before the hut was moved.

"We were able to show Hazel a picture of the inside of the hut with the chairs laid out to form an aisle, to the exclamation of 'ah yes, I remember walking down that aisle'.

"These reactions make all the work we are doing really worthwhile."

Mr Forrester said the team are still chatting to people and recording more memories of Mill Street.

These recollections will be kept at the Dorset History Centre as well as being recorded in Mr Forrester's next book, which will be published by Roving Press.

Anyone interested in getting involved with the project can call 01305 261622.