Speaker Jack Thomas will tell a vivid tale of Battles, Bloodshed, and Bravery.

THERE aren’t many better places to be at this time of year than glorious West Dorset, with Spring erupting all over the place, laying waste memories of that long, dreary winter. Nor is Holmbush car park in Lyme Regis the most romantic spot to be at 9.30 on a Spring morning, but it is from [...]

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 Bath, written during the Autumn of 1818. There’s a most interesting story behind it. In 1978 the artist Laurence Whistler gave this bound manuscript of a poem, some 80 [...]

ONE OF Lyme’s best known characters, Dr Colin Dawes, will be revealing the secrets of metal detecting in The Undercliff at a talk being arranged by The Friends of Lyme Regis Museum at the Woodmead Hall on March 4. Even those with no aspirations to treasure hunting themselves will be fascinated by this man of many [...]

ONE OF Lyme’s best-known residents, the playwright Ann Jellicoe, will be guest of honour at a luncheon in aid of the town Museum on 4 February at the Alexandra Hotel when she will talk on “Trials and Triumphs: a Life in Theatre.” A long time supporter of the Museum, and at one time co-curator with [...]