Latest 3 articles

A varied selection:

• a detailed account of the landing of one of HMS Formidable's pinaces on the front beach at Lyme Regis by Mrs Ann Harding who was returning home from a social engagement with her family when her daughter Gwen spotted in the moonlight the boat full of exhausted men. Her personal account evokes a vivid impression of how many of the townspeople rushed to help, bringing hot drinks, food, and dry clothing and offering shelter in their homes;

• an article on Cliff House off Cobb Road which once occupied what is now Lister Gardens until the landslip of 1962, complete with drawings and photographs of the house and a detailed timeline of its occupants over the years since it was built in the 1830s.

• information about 6 Coombe Street: first built in the 1600s, the building still exists but has been much altered.

  
  

A new page on the Parish Church....and an account of the gala reopening of the Guildhall in 1889 to celebrate its refurbishment.

There is now a page dedicated to the Parish Church sparked by the Research Team's project to examine materials related to it held in the Museum's Archives, and a news cutting from 1889 describes in some detail the look of the newly refurbished Guildhall in Bridge Street and the celebrations that took place to mark its repopening.

Real Life Reporting of life in Lyme Regis, 1827 -1830

Probably one of a number of diaries, this one [the Boteler Diary at bottom left of the linked page] in the possession of Lyme Regis Museum was started by Henry Boteler RN after his arrival in Lyme to take up a position as Coastguard. Both his and later his young wife's entries give a personal account detailing the daily life, family, social activities, health, food, the weather as well as touching on political issues such as the French "people quarrelling with their king."