History

The beginning

 ‘On that first day, we stood with our friendly architect in the yard of the derelict dairy farm that we had leased in Lytchett Minster village and he said 'What’s it going to be then?' That was the first of many such questions as we poured all our hard earned resources in. We had sold our house, car, everything and were to do much of the work ourselves to save money. 'We thought we would make it into s kind of craft centre with people working in the stables and have dances in the barn, yes and a dear little tea shop in the old kitchens' I waved my hands expansively 'I think we’ll call it The Courtyard Centre'.

Huntick Rd, Lytchett Minster, Poole, Dorset, BH16 6BA