Lyme Regis
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Lyme Regis books (13 available)
- 78 photos on Lyme Regis appear in 5 Frith books - View photos of Lyme Regis
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Lyme Regis memories
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Fossil Depot
My Great Great Great Grandfather, William Moore lived here in 1861 with his wife Sarah, he also sold music, pianofortes and oak carvings.
haunted house
my name is ray hallett and i lived here in 1969. our flat was on the first floor , on the left. I remember hearing an owl hooting in the large tree at night and was convinced that the place was haunted .The house was then owned by herbie hallett ,no relation. It was infested with mice , my mother once opened the oven door to see a mouse sitting there cleaning his whiskers .I think it is such a shame that it was not saved and only photos remain.
Contributed by Raymond Hallett
Greenhams, Broad Street
What a nice surprise to see your post, Charles Greenham was my Grandfather and I spent many a good holiday there in the 60s
Thanks
Contributed by Patrick Armstrong
Greenham's the Butchers & Brewer's the Grocers
In 1954, as a 17 year old cashier bookkeeper, I started work for Mr Greenham, whose butcher's shop was near the top of Broad Street.
Some years later (in 1958), I went to work at Brewer's, the grocers, further down Broad Street. My boss there was a Mr Vaughn, who I think later returned to Torquay. I enjoyed my job at the grocers; at first I worked behind the counter, and when the cashier left I took over her job. I had been born just outside Lyme, and during my working days there, I met many nice people and had some happy times.
Contributed by Rosemary Bennett
Childhood memories.
I noticed with some surprise a photo of myself aged about 12 years. I am the girl on the left with the ponytail the year being about 1960. I don't recall the boys name but it looks as if we are standing by the machine that used to print letters of the alphabet. I think it cost one old penny for 20/25 letters. There was a metal dial with a brass pointer like the hour hand on a clock and when it was pointing to the letter you required you pulled down a lever on the side (a bit like a one armed bandit) and the letters were embossed on a strip of metal.
Contributed by Chris Rowe
High Spring Tide Lyme Regis Cobb 10th March 2008
I stood at the end of the Cobb on the day of the worst storm this winter and both saw and felt the sea spray as the waves hit the top of the sea wall. It was just as exciting as shown in this view of 1910 !
I was visiting for the day while sight-seeing with our friends Julian and Janice Dent who were staying with my wife Elizabeth and me in Tiverton. Julian took photos of the angry sea - it came almost to the top of the shingle bank where the fishing boats were laid up. We went on to the shingle and threw a few pebbles in the sea getting our socks and trousers wet ...read more here
Contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Extracts From Lyme Regis & Dorset books
From Ware Cliffs we can see the medieval Cobb harbour (centre right) and the coastal skyline of Stonebarrow Hill, Golden
Cap and Thorncombe Beacon. St Michael’s Church can be glimpsed in Lyme Regis town, below the Spittles and Black Ven
(top left). The interesting buildings with a smoking chimney comprise the cement works (lower right). Behind this stacks of
bricks surrounding the brick kiln stretch towards Ozone Terrace (centre). The shingle expanse of Monmouth Beach extends
seawards. The factory site became a Royal Air Force base for operating air-sea rescue craft and bombing range launches
during the Second World War.
An extract from from"Lyme Regis Photographic Memories".
Cobb Road, as we
see it today, dates
from about 1830. Its
narrow predecessor
was described as a
‘private road’ in 1813.
On the town’s tithe
map of 1841 it appears
in its present width as
‘New Road’. The view is
southwards to the Cobb
warehouses and Cobb
hamlet (left), beyond
Westfield (centre) and
a terrace of early 19th-
century town houses.
An extract from from"Lyme Regis Photographic Memories".
This view looks seawards across Cobb
hamlet. Its buildings range from Bay
Cottage (near left), the Royal Standard,
Sunnyholme, the Bonded Store, and
the Coastguard Station to the old Cobb
Arms (right). Bay Cottage had a fictional
resident, Caption Harville, in Jane Austen’s
‘Persuasion’. The real-life landlord at the
Cobb Arms was Jonathan Abbott. The
picture is from the terraced Tennis Grounds;
by Victorian times these were the town’s
main exercise area, after bowling fell out
of favour and golf courses had yet to be
constructed. The North Wall of the harbour
(left centre) was still detached from the
beach. The coaster ‘Glencoe’, which can be
seen beside the Cobb Warehouse (centre),
generally delivered coal and left with a
cargo of Lyme-made cement.
An extract from from"Lyme Regis Photographic Memories".
Back Beach was the fiefdom
of William Curtis & Sons,
boatmen and fish merchants
from nearby Long Entry on
Church Cliffs. The spot was
locally known as Curtis Cove.
An extract from from"Lyme Regis Photographic Memories".
This is the rear of Coram Court – we are looking south-westwards from its grounds. It became St Michael’s College in 1887,
with the Rev Arthur R Sharpe as headmaster. There were 34 pupils initially, and the advertised aim was ‘to provide a good
education at moderate charges for the sons of the clergy of the dioceses of Salisbury and Exeter’.
An extract from from"Lyme Regis Photographic Memories".