Wartime Defences
A Memory of Lyme Regis.
The photo caption for this in the book states that there were girders and wires and mines on Lyme beach during the war. My father Gilbert Atterbury was Town Clerk from the mid thirties until the late fifties and fought the War Office to keep Lyme beach open as tourism was all it had. As far as I know it was the only Dorset beach without giant concrete block tank traps seen in Seaton etc.,
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