Spinning Yarns is Bridport Museum Trust’s oral history project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and undertaken during 2006 & 2007. It set out, using local volunteers, to record a wide variety of memories and recollections from residents in and around Bridport and along the Dorset Heritage Coast from West Bexington in the East to Charmouth in the West.

The recordings collected will be preserved as an archive by the museum to enrich the understanding, for residents and visitors alike, of this physically diverse, beautiful part of Dorset and the influence its historic role in the production of rope, nets & twine had on local people’s lives.