Lyme Regis: Maritime history award for Ken Gollop
LOCAL HISTORIAN and Lyme Regis Museum trustee Ken Gollop has been honoured for his contributions to maritime history with an award from the South West Maritime History Society.
Read articleBeer, beer, glorious beer! From Lyme Regis to Bridport…
THE THINGS I do for others! Now, just to help those not in a position to judge for themselves, I have been drinking beer. Yes, I…
Read articleLyme Regis fossil hunter Mary Anning acclaimed as top British scientist – and secret inspiration for John Fowles
THE LYME REGIS fossil hunter Mary Anning has been named by the Royal Society as the third most influential female scientist in British history. The move…
Read articleAccess to Lyme Regis harbour to be improved
GETTING boats in and out of Lyme Regis harbour will be easier after silt is scooped away from the entrance later this month. Over the winter,…
Read articleCelebrating “matchless Lyme / In all the wild luxuriance of rhyme”
HERE are some short extracts from The Lymiad, a series of eight verse letters written from Lyme Regis in 1818, never before published in their entirety,…
Read articleSubscribers wanted for The Lymiad. Hand over £20, get your name in it
LYME REGIS Philpot Museum’s Trustees have issued an unusual invitation: to subscribe to the first publication of The Lymiad, or Letters from Lyme to A Friend at…
Read articleOld West Dorset media to battle it out midweek
THE Bridport News and the Lyme Regis News will appear in future on Wednesdays. The move is announced on the papers’ website but not (that I can…
Read articleLyme Regis: Report confirms Three Cups’ historic status
AN HISTORIC buildings report on the former Three Cups Hotel in Lyme Regis says that the building frontage makes ‘a very important contribution towards the character and…
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