East Boldre Chapel Stores and Post Office

20/11/2024

It’s only 4 days to go to Stir up Sunday (When people traditionally make their Christmas puddings).
Have you got all the ingredients for making your fabulous 🤶 pudding? If not come to Chapel Stores for all of the ingredients you’ll need. Our quality Wilton range at reasonable prices will be sure to give you a pud to be proud of.

17/11/2024

Don't forget to get your tickets for the talk by Dr James Miles of Archaeovision about the Chapel's graveyard and how the latest digital imaging techniques have helped us to decipher the rather eroded inscriptions on the gravestones. The results are amazing and this has enabled us to research some of the people buried there.

Tuesday, 19th November at East Boldre Village Hall
Tickets available online or on the door.
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/hampshire/east-boldre-village-hall/imaging-heritage-revealing-history/2024-11-19/18:30/t-jzyjgzl

16/11/2024

In response to customer requests Chapel Stores is now selling quality fresh meat from Owton’s.

13/11/2024

Are you ready for Stir up Sunday on 24th November?
A centuries-old tradition where families gather to make their Christmas puddings on the last Sunday before Advent. Gather your family in your kitchen to mix up a fabulous pudding and make your wishes. Making in November allows the pudding flavours to develop.

​​Chapel Stores stocks a quality range of dried fruit, cherries and nuts from Wiltons Wholefoods, brandy and muscavado sugar at very reasonable prices along with all the other essential ingredients for a delicious pudding.

12/11/2024

St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery's exhibition of 'Art of the Lymington River' is now available to view in the Vestry @ Chapel Stores.
Thanks to Freya and Steve for installing it this morning.

Do spare a few minutes to take a look when you are in the shop and do let us know here what you think.

10/11/2024

Most of the gravestones were unreadable when we bought the East Boldre chapel site. Once volunteers had cleared the site and carefully cleaned the headstones we could make out parts of the inscriptions on about half of them. Following the RTI and 3D imaging work carried out by James we can now read 99% of the inscriptions.

Find out more about the techniques used and the amazing results at the talk by James at East Boldre Village Hall. Tickets are £3 each and are available from Ticket Source. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/chapel-story-gravestone-recording/imaging-heritage-revealing-history/e-pqpzxy

08/11/2024

Evensong at St Paul's church followed by the act of remembrance in the churchyard. All are very welcome.

3pm - this Sunday, 10th November

08/11/2024

Thanks to everyone who has completed the survey so far...your feedback helps us celebrate the good and make improvements where needed. The survey is completely anonymous to encourage constructive feedback.

Here's the link again to complete online https://forms.gle/PmGjdqXWkt2N6VJZA

Or pop into Chapel Stores for a paper form and return to the counter staff, in an envelope if you wish to keep your replies confidential.

07/11/2024

We are very pleased to be hosting our second touring exhibition by St Barbe Museum + Art Gallery. Drop into the Vestry to see it when you are in Chapel Stores.

This time next week we are touring an exhibition of original artwork by local artists showing views of the Lymington River through history.

‘Art of the River’ will be exhibited at East Boldre Chapel Stores and Post Office from Wednesday the 13th of November until Thursday the 5th of December.

Opening times:
Monday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Sundays: 9.30am - 11.30am

🖼 Featured artwork: H George Wooldridge

03/11/2024

01/11/2024

Gravestones are an important record of a place’s social history. National Lottery Heritage Funding has enabled us to digitally record the gravestones on the Chapel Stores site.

Dr James Miles, a computational archaeologist was engaged to carry out the specialist imaging required. He is a leading international specialist in his field, applying digital solutions to archaeological studies.

The talk shares our research of the graveyard. James will explain the techniques chosen to record the chapel’s gravestones, the process of recording and producing the final images along with examples of the remarkable results obtained.

Tickets for the talk are £3 and can be obtained here https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/chapel-story-gravestone-recording

31/10/2024

We are now stocking fresh, award winning meat from Owton’s, a traditional Family Butcher who take pride in supplying the freshest, tastiest meat.
Their focus is on quality locally produced meat and they sustainably raise their own beef on Chalcott Farm which the Owton family has farmed since 1257! They also source meat from 40 local farmers across Hampshire and Dorset.
This is a 6 week trial in response to customer requests and your feedback is very welcome.

29/10/2024

After 8 months trading we are keen to hear your feedback on our the products, services and customer service so we can best serve our community.
​We’d be very grateful if you would take the time to do this via this link. https://forms.gle/G5UZxrUV7cxkL7wu7

Paper copies of the survey are in the shop for those who do not want to complete this anonymous survey online.

25/10/2024

We are delighted that Rebecca Gabzdyl won the National Community Contribution Award, kindly sponsored by Thakeham in the and Bestway Wholesale Rural Community Business Awards 2024, held on 23rd October London! The £250 prize will be used to benefit Chapel Stores

12/10/2024

12/10/2024

Last week His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, visited Chapel Stores to recognise and celebrate the huge community effort it has taken over the last six years to establish the community shop and Post Office in East Boldre.
Representatives from key groups who contributed to the success of the project to create Chapel Stores were presented to His Royal Highness including the management committee, the village hall team who initiated the shop project, our Lane Reps, local funders, the share offer team, those who participated in the Big Help Outs and who now volunteer in the shop as well as our local contractors and suppliers.
His Royal Highness congratulated everyone involved. He commented on the importance of such local projects in building community cohesion and retaining local services. As a former practising architect, he clearly grasped the challenges faced in restoring and repurposing the 200-year-old chapel.
Thanks to all who made this such a relaxed and happy event.