July 2010 Daily Diary of Events in and around Lyme Regis

Friday 2nd 
'Jurassic Jazz' Lyme Regis 20th Jazz Festival: Opening Event :
the Woodroffe School Jazz Band; Roy Potts 'Five a Penny';  Kenny Ball with the Old Thumper Jazzband; The Louisiana Joymakers ~ Gerry Brown and the Mission Hall Jazz Band;

'Jane Austen’s Fame’  

Diana Shervington talks of Jane Austen’s unappreciated talent in her lifetime and her growing fame since then.  Lyme Regis Museum 2.30pm

Chimanimani  
Bring Zimbabwean sunshine music to rural Dorset  Whether or not you will be following the football World Cup this summer, there will be a definite South African flavour in the air, when Zimbabwean band Chimanimani descend on Dorset. Formed in Harare, they take their name from Zimbabwe’s sacred mountain along which winds a path so narrow that in places it’s necessary to make a ‘chimanimani’ – a walk sideways. But no-one wants to walk to the band’s music!  Chimanimani embodies everything expected from a vibrant African dance band – up-beat and infectious rhythms, jangling guitar melodies and haunting vocals. They are a dance band in the traditions of the wonderful Four Brothers and The Bhundu Boys. A blend of traditional and modern styles, their music fills the heart and gets the body moving, whilst uniting everyone in a common celebration of life. Chimanimani sing of life in the Zimbabwe of today, a land struggling against all odds to come out of poverty.  If you were among the Artsreach audiences that enjoyed Umdumo Wesizwe and Siyaya in the past couple of years be sure not to miss Chimanimani – theirs is a joyful positive music, sunshine music no less… bring your dancing shoes!  Wootton Fitzpaine Village Hall   7:30pm   01297 560948

Fri 2nd - Sat 3rd  Seaton Festival of Cycling see www.seatonfestivalofcycling.org.uk
 

Sat 3rd   
  'Jurassic Jazz' Lyme Regis 20th Jazz Festival Grand Brolly Parade -
 Langmoor Gardens to Cobb Gate 10.30 am.
Other events  feature:
Chicago Jazz Aces; Bowen/Hurst 5; Muskrat Ramblers; The Louisiana Joymakers; Coly River Jazz;  Tony Oreskco Quartet; Gerry Brown and the Mission Hall Jazz Band;  Salisbury Big Band;  The Bone Supremacy

'Rock around the Coast Walk'  7 mile strenuous walk to West Bay with Phil Davidson  Meet 9.30 at Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre  Tel 01929 552470

Golden Cap Challenge  2010  Fun Run and Charmouth School PTA Fete
1.30pm. Charmouth Primary School. Info and entry forms see www.charmouth.dorset.sch.uk or Charmouth Challenge and Fun Run  see  www.charmouthchallenge.co.uk or Tel 01297 560341

‘Know Your Fossils’  
Talk by enthusiastic fossil experts Paddy and Chris. Learn how fossils lived, how to find and identify, and how to handle your finds. 2:30pm Lyme Regis Museum

Cat Rescue Fund Raising Day
Tombola, Cake Stall, Bric-a-Brac, Guess the Wine, Teas and Coffee 10.30 - 2pm  'Rockwell' Crewkerne Road, Raymonds Hill, AX13 5SF (Look out for the balloons).  Weather permitting

Sun 4th

Sunday Market
at the Town Mill (weather permitting) more info see right

 ‘Know Your Fossils’  
Talk by enthusiastic fossil experts Paddy and Chris. Learn how fossils lived, how to find and identify, and how to handle your finds. 2.30pm Lyme Regis Museum

   
'Jurassic Jazz' Lyme Regis 20th Jazz Festival 
Tiger Tim's Hot Four; "Swing Fever" with Dave Shepherd; Excelsior Vintage Jazzband;  'Jazz at Vespers'; Gerry Brown and the Mission Hall Jazz Band with special  guest Tony Carter

'Jazz Vespers'  accompanied by the  Tim Eyles All Stars Quartet. 
A special evening service  featuring a selection of traditional 'Spirituals' such as 'Old Rugged Cross' and 'When the Saints go Marching In'  Free admission.  4.30 - 6pm St Michaels Church

‘Mary Anning’s Town’  
Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils. A walk with local expert Natalie Manifold. depart from Lyme Regis Museum at 3.30pm
 

Youth Service with Sidmouth Gospel Choir  
6pm Uplyme Parish Church, Pound Road, Uplyme

Monday 5th
Lyme Regis Development Trust AGM followed by discussion on the benefits of the Jurassic Coast Study Centre  Info:  diana@lrdt.co.uk 7.30pm Woodmead Hall

Tues 6th 
First Tuesday Concert  ‘Music by the Sea’
Lyme Regis Town Band, The Shelters, Marine Parade

WEDNESDAY 7th  
‘Fishermen, Fossils and French Lieutenant’s Woman’ 
Walk around the Cobb with local boatman Ken Gollop for Lyme Regis Museum depart from Lifeboat Station at 7.00pm

 Fri 9th

William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece  Marine Theatre

Barn Dance  
by Woodroffe School PTA 7.30pm Woodroffe School Hall, tickets: Adults £6 Children £3, from Martin Diplock and Woodroffe School Office

Dorset  Seafood Festival  Dorset's very own  Seafood Festival 10th - 11th July 2010 Weymouth

Sat 10th
Book Swap Event 
In aid of Charmouth Literary Festival 10am - 4pm Greengates, Lower Sea Lane, Charmouth (opposite Hensleigh Hotel)

‘From Clotted Cream to Penny a Lick’  
Talk by Felicity Hebditch on Victorian food and cooking with recipes, implements and tastings. Also a sale of Victorian-recipe homemade cakes, biscuits and preserves. 2.30pm Lyme Regis Museum
 

‘Mary Anning’s Town’
Walk with Natalie Manifold through the Lyme Regis that Mary Anning ‘the princess of palaeontology’ would have known. depart from Lyme Regis museum at 3.30pm
 

Lymehouse Lizzie The Legends Return to Lyme
Vintage Thin Lizzy material performed by one of the longest established and most popular tribute bands in the country. Limehouse Lizzy keep the spirit of Philip Lynott and his band alive. Attention to detail, playful audience interaction and that all important x-factor leave you feeling you’ve witnessed the real thing.  www.limehouselizzy.com   Woodmead Halls, doors open 7.30.  Tickets £12  from Tourist Information Centre, 01297 442138; Focus, 62 Broad Street;  ONLINE:  Lyme Regis TV

Sun 11th  
'Taster Session' with Lyme Regis Gig Club: email: Lyme Regis Gig Club

Sunday afternoon Concert
by Lyme Regis Town Band 2.30pm Marine Parade Shelters

Tues 13th
"A Pensioners Adventures on the Amazon"  by Joyce West   for Heritage Coast U3A Woodmead Halls 7.30pm.  Please note this new date (not 27th)
 

Lyme Regis Organ Appeal AGM 7pm St Michaels Church Room

Weds 14th
'Fostering, Adoption and being a Step-mum'  Uplyme WI 2.30pm Uplyme Village Hall

Thurs 15th 

The Beach Stall:  Cakes, books, bric-a-brac, Jewellery, Handicrafts in aid of St Michaels Church  10am - 3pm Marine Parade

Silver Jewellery Making Workshop   Learn how to create a unique pendant and earrings using Precious Metal Clay. This workshop shows you how to apply a texture and cut a shape. Making and applying a bail, through which to thread a chain or a ribbon. Setting a cubic zirconium stone, drilling, filing and finishing of a piece and how to torch fire. Precious Metal Clay is fine silver particles mixed with a non toxic organic binder. which when fired leaves you with fine silver which is 99.9% pure and can be hallmarked. Come and enjoy a a great day at The Town Mill. This is one of three courses to create and advance your skills.  Info: Annabelle 07540841437  01404 881419  www.handsonlyme.co.uk
 

‘James McNeill Whistler in Lyme Regis’  Talk by Sandra Lello on the famous19th-century American artist who painted ‘The Little Rose of Lyme Regis’. 2.30pm Lyme Regis Museum
 

'Showstoppers' Lyme Regis Pantomime Society  Marine Theatre, Tickets from Primary Colours, Broad Street or on the door

Fri 16th

'Showstoppers' Lyme Regis Pantomime Society  Marine Theatre, Tickets from Primary Colours, Broad Street or on the door

Sat 17th
Lyme Regis Bowling Club RNLI Drive, the Bowling Green, Monmouth Beach in aid of Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week

Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society Summer Show, 
Shows, games, races, live music and refreshments.   Schedules available from Uplyme Post Office; Raymond's Hill Post Office; Ginger Beer, Broad Street, Lyme Regis
 

‘Know Your Fossils’  Talk by enthusiastic fossil experts Paddy and Chris.  Learn how fossils lived, how to find and identify, and how to handle your finds. 2:30pm Lyme Regis Museum

‘Mary Anning’s Town’  Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils. A walk with local expert Natalie Manifold.  Depart from Lyme Regis Museum at 1.30pm
 

John Otway The Legends Return to Lyme Rock veteran Otway dubbed himself ‘rock'n'rolls greatest failure’ after many unsuccessful attempts to produce a second hit single to follow his 1977 classic, Cor Baby That’s Really Free! with Wild Williie Barrett. John Otway attacks his favourite set list with gusto, leaving plenty of room for anarchy, fun and the acrobatics that are his trademark.   www.johnotway.com   Woodmead Halls, doors open 7.30. Tickets £12  from Tourist Information Centre, 01297 442138; Focus, 62 Broad Street;  ONLINE:  Lyme Regis TV

Bill Giles' Weather Show  Marine Theatre

Sun 18th - Sat 24th
Cabaret Chordelia   Marine Theatre
 

Sun 18th

‘Know Your Fossils’  Talk by enthusiastic fossil experts Paddy and Chris.  Learn how fossils lived, how to find and identify, and how to handle your finds. 2:30pm Lyme Regis Museum
 
Rounders Challenge between the Independent Lyme Youth group and the Emergency Services (police, firefighters and youth workers), in aid of LRDT Lyme Regis Club for Young People Building  Fund. 3pm the Playing Field, Anning Road.  See www.independentlymeyouth.org.uk

The Goldfinch Ensemble followed by tea and cake in the Church Hall.  In aid of the Organ Fund 3.30pm St Michaels Church
 

Monday 19th
Lyme Regis Britain in Bloom Garden Competition Selection of winners
 

WEDNESDAY 21st

‘How our Grandparents Lived’  Talk on the health and welfare of Lyme’s residents in the first half of the 20th century, with Martin Roundell-Greene. 2.30pm  Lyme Regis Museum

Thurs 22nd St Michaels School End of Term
 

Fri 23rd
Woodrofffe School End of Term
 

Welcoming and Licensing for Jane Skinner as Team Vicar with the Bishop of Sherborne the Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings.  7.30pm St Michaels Church

Edinburgh preview comedy nights 9.30pm Marine Theatre
 

Sat 24th July - Sun 1st August  Lifeboat Week 
 
Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week:
the following items in red are in aid of Lifeboat Week.
For full information; competition entry details and confirmation of times please see the full programme available from outlets throughout the town and posters. (Sorry but the organisers have asked us not to publish times in order that they can sell more programmes - only £1.50 from shops around the town) Fun for all the family. 

SATURDAY 24th
Belly Dancing Watch, learn a few moves and then join in.  The shelters, Marine Parade

Lifeboat Welcoming Display off the Main Beach Watch preparations for the launch, listen to the commentary and meet the Crew of the 'Pearl of Dorset'

Lyme Regis Majorettes Display in the shelters, Marine Parade
 

‘Mary Anning’s Town’ Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils. A walk with local expert Natalie Manifold. depart from Lyme Regis Museum at 3.30pm

'Meet the Lifeguards' Fun, games and sport with the Lifeguard team on the beach

Tug of War across the harbour mouth Lifeboat Crew against the Coastguards with help from the Lifeguards.  Losers get wet!

Skittles on the Slipway  Play skittles for the nightly prize with the crew 50p for 3 balls
 

Disco at the Cobb Arms  Fancy dress presented by John and Linda McClements

Edinburgh preview comedy night 9.30pm Marine Theatre

Sunday 25th

'Taster Session' with Lyme Regis Gig Club: email: Lyme Regis Gig Club

Lyme Regis Art Group Exhibition and sale 10am to 5pm The Shelters, Marine Parade

Sea Front Service The annual Ecumenical service: open air worship with Churches Together led by Revd Jane Skinner and Shaun Sweeney with Lyme Regis Town Band 10.30am Marine Parade
 

Town Criers Competition  Town Criers from the South West Region compete for the Lyme Regis Fossil Trophy. 
Parade from Cobb Gate Car Park to the top of Marine Parade Shelters 11.45am
Town Criers Competition on top of Shelters 12 noon
Announcement of Winners and presentation of awards (Best Town Crier; 1st Runner-up; 2nd Runner-up; Best Dressed Crier; Best Dressed Crier and Escort; Best Dressed Escort) by the Mayor of Lyme Regis, 2pm

Concert & RNLI ‘Songs of Praise’  presented by Lyme Regis Churches with the Lyme Regis Town Band playing.  All welcome, 3pm Marine Parade Shelters (East)
 

Piano recital and poetry reading by John and Sandra Lello.  Organised by the Friends of Lyme Regis Museum.  St Michael’s Church, Lyme Regis, at 3.30pm
 

Gig Race: Lyme Regis Gig Club take on the Lifeboat Crew:  CREW MEMBERS of the RNLI lifeboat in Lyme Regis are preparing to make history on two counts...they will be taking part in the first gig race against  female rowers  during Lifeboat Week and for the first time for well over a century a lifeboat crew will ROW a boat in Lyme Bay. Their opponents will be the Ladies Veterans crew from the successful Lyme Regis Gig Club.   The race, over 1.2miles from near Charmouth to Lyme Regis harbour, starts at 4pm.

Bath Tub Race  From Cobb Gate to the Harbour Mouth

Skittles on the Slipway  Play skittles for the nightly prize with the crew 50p for 3 balls


Mon 26th

Fresh Cakes, Fruit and Produce stall, fruit donated by Forde Abbey Fruit Gardens; Cakes and Produce from local supporters. Marine Parade Shelters 10am

Children's Sand Sports; Open to all children.  The Sand Bar

Swimming Race for Children and Adults; Cobb Gate to Harbour Mouth

Chicago Bridge Drive: Lyme Regis Golf Club.  All welcome £5 includes light refreshments.   Lyme Regis Golf Club 7pm. Tel 01297 560491/560678

Skittles on the Slipway  Play skittles for the nightly prize with the crew 50p for 3 balls

Family Quiz A fun evening, everyone welcome.  £2 per person £1 children Prizes for under and over 12's Teams of up to 6. Bar, teas, coffees, raffle.  7pm for 7.30 at the Woodmead Halls

Lyme Regis Fire Brigade Exercise, dealing with simulated 'Fire and Rescue' at The Lifeboat Station; the Cobb

'Jazz at the Nags'   the Nags Head, Silver Street

Tuesday 27th

Sand Castle and Sand Sculpture competition for children and families on the Main Beach

Guided Tour of the Lifeboat Station  by Rob Fossett and the Lifeboat Crew
 

‘George Somers and the Bermuda Connection’  
Talk by Barbara Austin on Lyme’s long connection with Bermuda. 2.30pm Lyme Regis Museum
 

Teddy Bear's Picnic.  Admission: Teddy Bears £1 accompanying children and adults free. 3pm Theatre Square, in the Theatre if wet
 
Skittles on the Slipway  Play skittles for the nightly prize with the crew 50p for 3 balls

Barn Dance: Music and calling by Long Odds and Short Straws 7.30pm Uplyme Village Hall, Ticket £8.50/£6.50 (under 15's) includes Ploughmans supper.  Tickets from the Lifeboat Shop, The Cobb; Lifeboat Lottery Hut on Marine Parade; Uplyme Post Office and 07831 533580
 

Wednesday 28th
 RNLI Day at Lyme Regis Golf Club  Entry fee includes a contribution to the RNLI.  Raffle, side competitions Tel 078367 44269

Tombola All day on the Marine Parade

Valuation Day by Chilcotts 1pm - 3pm Uplyme Village Hall. Tel 01404 47783

Barbecue on the Slipway run by the crew From 11am
 

Admiral Sir George Somers Commemoration Parade 11am from Langmoor Gardens to the Cobb.  Led by the Lyme Regis Junior Town Band

RAF Falcons Parachute Display Team landing on the beach 2.30pm  see their website

Royal Navy Black Cats.  
Helicopter display team demonstrate their new display across the bay -  see

Black Cats  NB This display will now take place at 4pm (not at the programme time of 4.30pm)
 

Caravan Club of Great Britain Concert Band
play a mixture of marches and music from films and shows Marine Parade Shelters

RNLI Pennant Race, Lyme Regis Sailing Club 7pm

Skittles on the Slipway  Play skittles for the nightly prize with the crew 50p for 3 balls

DArcy Trinkwon (International concert organist) - Proceeds to organ appeal and the RNLI. Admission by ticket £10/8, Children £5. Tickets from Lyme Regis TIC on 01297 442138.  7.30pm St Michaels Church  "Just been down to the Church to hear this man setting things up practising - Just utterly stunning, phenomenal and some of it is just hilarious and great great fun! Please bring people with you - this is no ordinary organ recital!!!!  Tickets in aid of RNLI and the appeal £10/8 children £5 and very suitable for children to attend, I expect they'll love it!  Full biog details if you doubt me or enjoy those things at www.darcytrinkwon.com"  alex Davies

Yard of Ale Competition, the Cobb Arms 20.00

'Gardeners Question Time' with Joy Everington, Nigel Ball and Cyril Whitlock. Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society, 7.30pm Uplyme Village Hall

Stone Balancing by Adrian Gray on Lyme Regis beach; the Undercliffs and at Charlton Bay will be featured on BBC's  'Coast'  at 9pm

Weds 28th - Sun 29th August
 A Rat's Tale  Shanty Theatre Company Tues 7.30pm Wed 4pm & 7.30pm Thurs 7.30pm Fri 7.30pm Sat 4pm & 7.30pm Sun 6pm £8.50 (£6.50)  Family ticket £26  Marine Theatre

Thurs 29th
Guided Tour of the Lifeboat Station  by Rob Fossett and the Lifeboat Crew 11am

Beach treasure Hunt on the Sand Bar.  Dig for buried Treasure

Pavement Artists Competition, Marine Parade 14.00
 

Skittles on the Slipway  Play skittles for the nightly prize with the crew 50p for 3 balls

Fire Fit - Fun Fitness Sessions for young people 7.30pm Anning Road Playing Fields

'Fun at the Nags Head'  Barbeque and live music 'til late, featuring Real World.  Sponsored by Robin and Debbie Hamon
 

FRIDAY 30th

Delicious Bacon Baps available  from the RNLI Shop:   8.45am until noon or until sold out!

‘Shipwreck and Rescue’  In Lifeboat Week, Thea Hawkesworth talks about famous wrecks and rescues in Lyme’s history. 2.30pm  Lyme Regis Museum

Grand Duck Race, 12 noon: Higher Mill (just up the river from Windsor Terrace waterfall - before Horn Bridge) to Jordan flats (where the river meets top of Mill Green)

Fossil Walk with Nigel Clarke.  Meet at the Lifeboat Station £5 adults £2.50 children

20-20 Cricket Lyme Regis RNLI crew play a team from Uplyme and Lyme Regis Cricket Club, Uplyme Cricket Ground 6pm  Refreshments and Bar available

Uplyme Morris Men on the Slipway.  Opportunity to join in

Saturday 31st
Children's Crab Fishing competition; Inner Cobb Harbour area

Coastguard Cliff Rescue through the gardens and shelters

Launching of The Lerret - a replica of one of the first lifeboats used by the RNLI, accompanied by two gigs, plus the only remaining seaworthy lerret, a boat called Vera dating from 1923. The Lyme Regis RNLI lifeboat will also join in the celebrations. 11-30am the slipway   

MX5 Cars on Display by Moonrakers and Southwest MX5 Club, The Shelters, Marine Parade

Mud Rescue in the Harbour.  The local Coastguards Mud Rescue Team demonstration

Blackdown Steel Band in the shelters, from 7.30pm Marine Parade

Skittles Match Coastguards, Firemen and Lifeboat Crew compete for The Rescuers Cup  - The Caroline Wiscombe Trophy The Pilot Boat

'The Sidekicks' perform at the Royal Standard

Grand Firework Display, 10pm the Harbour

Lifeboat Week Events continue tomorrow (in August)

July 2012

27th July  Olympics Opening Ceremony  Ticketing Info: www.tickets.london.2012.com and www.thomascooksport.com/London-2012-Games

    

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Regular Events

Lyme Regis Park and Ride

open
Summer Holidays
 Daily until 31st August

Operating hours for the Charmouth Road service are from 10:00 to 18:00
and for the
Sidmouth Road service (£4 all day) are from 10:30 to 18:30.

Don't even think about trying to park in or drive through
the  town!  

Lyme Regis 19th
Jazz Festival

July 2nd, 3rd  & 4th  2010

 Lyme Regis 19th Jazz Festival:
Friday Stroller £12;
Saturday pass £30;
Sunday pass £17;
3day stroller £50;
Marine Theatre events £7 per session.  Tickets now on Sale
from Lyme Regis Tourist Information Centre Tel 442138

 Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week

 Sat 24th July
to
Sun 1st August

Lyme Regis and Charmouth Lifeboat Week plans are out now !

The full programme for Lyme Regis and Charmouth Lifeboat Week has been published – and from Sunday July 24^th to Sunday August 1^st visitors can expect day after day of displays, exhibitions and, hopefully, fun in the sun for the youngsters.
 

Once again it will be Super Wednesday on July 28^th with the visit for the first time of the Royal Navy’s Black Cats helicopter display team. On the same day there’s the return of the spectacular RAF Falcons parachute display team.

Among the many highlights is the tug of war with the RNLI lifeboat crew taking on the coastguards across Lyme Regis harbour mouth (losers get wet), a bath tub race, sand castle competitions, a beach treasure hunt, the grand duck race,  a childrens’ crab fishing contest and much, much more.

A glossy, 48 page programme with full details of all the week’s activities is now available throughout Lyme Regis and Charmouth, including the lifeboat shop at the harbour in Lyme, price £1-50.

Lifeguards will be on duty

Grants to Local Organisations

by Lyme Regis Town Council

Guidelines and Application Forms from
The Town Clerk, Guildhall Cottage, Church Street,
Lyme Regis DT7 3BS
Tel. 01297 445175

Lyme Regis Town Band Summer Concerts

 Begin Tues 6th July on Marine Parade
8pm Tuesdays Weather permitting

FOSSIL WALKS IN JULY

LYME REGIS MUSEUM

Find your own 190-million-year-old fossil with museum geologies Paddy Howe and fossil expert Chris Andrew:
 

Saturday 10th July 9.00am

Sunday 11th July 10.00am

Monday 12th July 11.00am

Tuesday 13th July 11.45am

Thursday 15th July 1.15pm

Saturday 24th July 9.30am

Sunday 25th July 10.15am

Monday 26th July 11.00am

Tuesday 27th July 11.30am

Wednesday 28th July 12.00 noon

Thursday 29th July 12.30pm

Friday 30th July 1.00pm

Saturday 31st July 1.30pm

booking advisable for walks:

telephone: 01297 443370 or email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

or call in at Lyme Regis Museum, Bridge Street, Lyme Regis DT7 3QA

WALKS

Organised by Lyme Regis Museum

‘Mary Anning’s Town’  Explore the old paths and streets of Lyme as Mary knew them – where she grew up, lived and sold her fossils. A walk with local expert Natalie Manifold. depart from the museum at 3.30pm Sunday 4th, Saturday 10th, 17th & 24th

 ‘Fishermen, Fossils and French Lieutenant’s Woman’ 
Walk around the Cobb with local boatman Ken Gollop. Depart from Lifeboat Station at 7.00pm WEDNESDAY 7th

Dorset Coastal Walk

 Can you handle the challenge? 
Join us on Saturday 25 September as we hike 11 miles along the stunning Jurassic Coast to raise money for Parkinson’s UK!  This walking challenge starts at Lyme Regis and includes the ascent of Golden Cap, the highest peak on the South Coast of England, which towers 626ft above sea level!  Registration is only £5 and all of the sponsorship that you raise will support the work of Parkinson’s UK in the South West. 
To find out more or request your application pack call Jean on 0844 225 3732 or email jalmond@parkinsons.org.uk
www.parkinsons.org.uk/southwest 

Souvenir of Lyme Regis

Over 1,000 photos of Lyme Regis  now available on DVD
click here for more info,
stockists

Exhibitions

Lyme Regis Art Group

 exhibiting in the Marine Parade Shelter as part of Lifeboat Week
 Marine Parade 
Sunday 25th July
10am to 5pm

 ‘George Somers’

Lyme Regis Museum and the town’s Twinning Association present the exhibition ‘George Somers’. British naval hero Admiral Sir George Somers was born in Lyme and founded Bermuda – this exhibition illustrates the historic connection between these two very different places.

In the Rotunda Gallery of Lyme Regis Museum, open every day 10am to 5pm (11am to 5pm on Sundays) 
Until September:
 

'DRAWN BY COLOUR'

An exhibition of abstract paintings by
Georgina Fermer

        The abstract oil paintings in this exhibition have evolved out of a slow contemplative process, where themes, shapes and colours are inspired by different sources: open large landscape areas, field shapes, sea spaces, natural forms, architectural spaces, rhythms and the vibrancy of colour itself.  As the painting develops, the feeling it generates may take it away from the original starting point making unplanned shifts until it finds its own dynamic.

 Georgina Fermer  studied at Hornsey College of Art, London in the 1960’s.  She has lived in Sweden and Switzerland with long periods in France.  She has exhibited widely with solo shows in Basel Switzerland, London, Henley Oxon, Cranborne Gallery, Christchurch Red House Museum, Arts Institute Bournemouth University, Queen St. Gallery Hants, and Gorlice Poland.
   
The Town Mill In the David West Gallery

19 Jun - 8 Aug 2010
 

'CHASING WATERFALLS'

An exhibition of paintings by
Howard Jones

Exploring the wild, secret rivers and landscapes of the West country. 
19th Jun - 4th July 2010

The Town Mill  In the Courtyard Gallery
 

'INSPIRATIONS FROM NATURE'

An exhibition of paintings by

Wendy Jones

Paintings celebrating the intricate forms and colour to be discovered in the natural world. 
The Town Mill In the Courtyard Gallery

 19th  Jun - 4th July  2010
 

3rd - 16th July 2010
see www.spiritofthesea.org.uk

Sunday Market

will be held on the first Sunday of every month throughout the summer in the wonderful cobbled courtyard of the historic buildings at The Town Mill (weather permitting). Stall holders will be selling fantastic local products ranging from organic meat and vegetables, plants, handmade homeware, to handbags made from industrial waste material and much, much more. Also, we expect charities, local writers and artisans to promote their fantastic organisations and products, so come along and see for yourself.............. you may even be able to make a ceramic at the Potter's wheel which will be open to all in the courtyard. Come and have a look, visit the micro brewery, browse the galleries and buy a fabulous painting from a local artist, scoff an ice cream or choose a cheddar from the cheesemonger and stay for lunch at Tea and Dining rooms. You could even book yourself on a creative writing or arts course and have an escorted tour of the Mill.
For more information call Sarah Clark, The Town Mill Manager on 01297 443579 or Annabelle Ransome-Williams on 07540 841437 the Event Co-ordinator, Hands-On Lyme.
 

 A Rat's Tale

The town graveyard is heaving with excited fans as the people of Lyme Regis jostle to see the final showdown between their wrestling heroes, Man Mountain and The Plough. As the crowd roars its support, an inconspicuous ship slips into Weymouth harbour carrying a lethal cargo. The year is 1348. 

Two brothers try to resolve a family dispute as the plague creeps closer. As fear of infection takes hold, what will friends do to save friends? What will brothers do to resolve their differences before it’s too late?

Following the success of Smugglers and Rebel Harbour, Shanty Theatre Company returns to the Marine Theatre for the third successive summer with a hysterically historical musical tale of plague, pestilence and puns. Never has the Black Death been so funny.

A Rat’s Tale; Warning! It’s contagious!

 Shanty Theatre Company

 A Rat's Tale

Weds 28th July - Sun 29th August
 Tues 7.30pm Wed 4pm & 7.30pm Thurs 7.30pm Fri 7.30pm Sat 4pm & 7.30pm Sun 6pm £8.50 (£6.50)  Family ticket £26  Marine Theatre
Box Office (Lyme Regis Tourist Information Centre): 01297 442138