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Wednesday 6th December

The Launch
After 40 weeks of demanding work, the Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy Class are launching their boats for the first time.
Launch at Lyme Regis Harbour
  (time subject to change with adverse weather).  All are invited to join us in celebrating the end of the course and the launching of the boats.

 

 

 

 


Sunday 10th December

Lyme Bay Chorale Christmas Concert 2023

Magnificat – John Rutter     Christus Natus Est – Cecilia McDowall plus carols for choir and audience
Alex Davies, musical director,  Andrew Millington, organ and pupils from The Woodroffe School
Followed by wine/soft drinks and mince pies

Tickets £13 from Fortnam, Smith and Banwell in Lyme Regis or
choir members / £15 on the door / Under-19s free  Lyme Regis Parish Church  at 4pm
 

Tuesday 12th December

The Lyme Regis Society presents A Talk: Thomas Hollis Part 1 by John Dover

2pm  at Woodmead Halls, Hill Road, Lyme Regis. DT7 3PG. All Welcome. Members Free. Visitors £3.00. Refreshments Included. Social distanced seating available if desired. Please check website for further information: http//lymeregissociety.org.uk

 

Wednesday 13th December  2023  22nd Anniversary of UNESCO awarding World Heritage Site status to West Dorset and East Devon coasts  (2001) see http://jurassiccoast.org/

December 13th


CHRISTMAS SOCIAL see  www.ulrhs.wordpress.com

 

Friday 15th December

end of term

 

 

 

Friday 15th  - Sunday 17th December 2023



Christmas Tree Festival
Christmas Trees decorated by local organisations in the
Baptist Church, Broad Street  Admission free

 

 

 

Sunday 17th December


Carols by Candlelight
S
ervice of carols and readings  4pm St Michael's, Parish Church followed by seasonal refreshments.

 

Monday 18th December

 

Last posting date for second class mail

 

Wednesday 20th December

 

Last posting date for first class mail

 

 

Friday 22nd December

 

 

Last posting date for special delivery

 


Royal British Legion Bingo.

Eyes down 2000hrs  Raffle: at  mid time break Prizes: Cash
 

The annual community Christmas film 
This is a special double-bill of two heart-warming Christmas classics for the local community.
Scrooge and The Signalman will be played back-to-back with an interval. Enjoy this free screening with some Christmas treats.This Dickens double screening is sure to leave you with your heart full and bursting with Christmas joy!  Free but ticketed event  Marine Theatre

 

 Saturday 23rd December

 

Rotary Carols Round the Tree   

by the Rotary Club of Lyme Regis
with
Lyme Regis Town Band 

The Rotary Club of Lyme Regis
7pm The Shambles

 

 

Sunday 24th  Christmas Eve

 

Morning Communion 11- 12  St Michael's Parish Church http://www.lymeregis-parishchurch.org/

 


Monday 25th   Christmas Day 

 

Tuesday 26th  Boxing Day Go for long walk! 

See Liz Jones walks  for ideas 

 

                

Wednesday 27th 



December 31st   New Years Eve

  


Don't forget the Lyme Lunge on New Years Day 2024 -  fancy dress 'LUNGE'
from the sand beach organised by Lyme Regis Rotary.  
1pm from the Sandy Beach (time to watch the Duck Race First) 
 See January page for more details. 
This is a Weather Dependent event

 


DATES TO BE ADVISED

Santa on his Lyme Regis Charity Sleigh will be touring the town
.

Christmas Eucharist Services
at 8am and 10am  St Michael's Parish Church, church Street

 


 

November        January

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

What's On at the Galleries


Beyond the Beach Huts:
 Strange Visions of Lyme Regis

28th November 2023- 28th January 2024

In a fascinating exhibition in Lyme Regis Museum’s Rotunda Gallery, artist Dave Wicken will be sharing with visitors the fruits of his surreal imagination as he portrays the Jurassic Coast in a style halfway between drawing and photography.

“ have been shooting and processing my own photographs as well as producing pen and ink drawings for most of my life,” explains Dave, “but a few years ago it occurred to me that I could combine the two.”  He still uses pen and ink in the traditional way, but adds colour and texture with software.I

Inspired by the coastal scenery around Lyme Regis, Dave started wondering what may have inhabited the place long ago and what may occur there in the future.  His image of a ten-times life-size blue whale, leaping from the sea and about to crush Lyme Regis under its bulk, was inspired by a nightmare he had when he was four years old, but his photomontage of Lyme slipping into a vast chasm in the ‘Great Landslip of 2039’ is hopefully pure fantasy. 

Tuesdays- Saturdays from 10am until 5pm/Sundays 10am-4pm; check website www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk for holiday openings and admission charges.

Rotunda Gallery, Lyme Regis Museum, Bridge Street, Lyme Regis DT7 3QA

 

 

Charity Christmas Cards on Sale
at

The Lifeboat Shop, The Cobb (RNLI)

Martin Diplock's, Broad Street (RNLI)

National Trust Shop, Marine Parade (National Trust)

Weldmar Hospice charity Shop, Broad Street (Weldmar Hospice)
 

 

CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL

Christmas Trees decorated by local organisations in the

Pine Hall, the Baptist Church,
Broad Street


 

Friday 15th  - Sunday 17th December 2023

Friday 11am until 6pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am until 5pm.

 

    Rotary Lyme Lunge 2024:
Take a New Year Plunge in the sea for Charity

A fancy dress dip in the balmy waters of Lyme Bay, 13.00 hours at the Cobb Beach, (gives you time to watch the duck race first) all for charity.  Everyone welcome, whether ‘dipping’ or contributing to our charity collection. “If you would like to raise funds for the chosen Rotary charities please feel free to use the sponsor form, where sponsors can sign up to Gift Aid if they wish. If you have your own charity which you wish to raise funds for then please go ahead. It would help our cause if you would just email us with the amount raised.   1pm  1st January from the Sandy Beach (time to watch the Duck Race First).  
 

FOSSIL HUNTING WALKS

Get Fossiling on the Jurassic Coast! Join one of Lyme Regis's famous fossil walks along this historic stretch of Dorset coast with Geologist Paddy Howe and Marine Biologist Chris Andrew. Some families return time and again to search with Paddy and Chris among the sand and rocks for fossils that have been washed down onto the beach after 190 million years. For adults and children alike, it’s an unforgettable experience.

Learn all about Mary Anning, the famous early paleontologist who once lived on the site of the museum and much more

Each walk is limited to 15 people per guide. Start times for walks vary according to the tides and take about three hours.

 

Volunteers wanted

for Lyme Regis Regatta and Carnival Committee 

Tel. 01297 443696  or 442220
or e-mail Secretary  

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