A golden trip down memory lane

East Boro Housing Trust has been celebrating its golden anniversary recently with a visit from one of the first tenants to live in the trust’s original scheme.

Derek Selby decided to call in at East Boro’s head office after seeing local press coverage about the Trust’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. Mr Selby lived at 1 Station Road in Wimborne from 1962 with his late wife Ann. Prior to living in one of the flats, the couple and their young baby lived in a caravan, struggling to find suitable accommodation. It was their plight and desperate need for housing that inspired East Boro’s founder Peggy Bartley to create a local Housing Association, then known as the Wimborne Area Housing Association.

East Boro’s Chief Executive Kevin Hodder comments: “Mr Selby’s visit was totally unexpected by us here at the Trust but certainly a pleasant surprise. Throughout 2010 East Boro has been celebrating its Golden Jubilee and we are pleased to have heard from people of its past. It just goes to show the vivacious nature of our founder Peggy Bartley and the legacy she and her Team of volunteer helpers started fifty years ago.”