NEWSPAPERS
Newspapers are an important source of information for the researcher in local history covering news, articles, advertisements, and correspondence. The on-the-spot and dated reporting from the news journals in the past often allows the researcher to cut out the ‘middle man’ historian..
William J Emmett's Newspaper Scrapbooks
William John Emmett (1876-1963) kept newspaper cuttings about his activities as Mayor of Lyme Regis 1937-1945 that now provide an excellent record of municipal life at the time. His granddaughters have agreed that this digital copy may now be placed on this website – they are sure that would have pleased their grandfather.
The newspaper cuttings are divided into 5 books, labelled as:
[Notes: at that time the mayoral year began in November.
Many of the newspaper cuttings are not dated, so the team have added reference dates wherever possible.]​​
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Van H Allen's Newspaper Scrapbooks​
Van Hobman Allen (1893-1953) was well-known from the 1920s to 1950s as a business man and journalist (see this article). He compiled scrapbooks of his published writings, many of which have been transcribed here verbatim.
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A personal selection of stories appearing locally
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As seen through these excerpts from the Pulman Weekly News
19 Century Society in Lyme Regis - 1840s
A description of social events as reported in local papers.
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Horticultural and Cottagers' Improvement Society
The first exhibition in 1850 as reported in the Sherborne Mercury.
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​Bill Reed's Newspaper Scrapbooks
​Bill Reed MBE died in 2015 after a career as shop manger in Lyme and local fundraiser. The Research Team were given access by his family to his scrapbooks covering mainly the period 1979-1991, with a few cuttings (mainly adverts) from 1950.
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