Lyme Regis, Museum 1907
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Designed by architect George Vialls for the Mayor, Thomas Embray Davenport Philpot, the museum in Bridge Street was built in 1901. Its core collection, gathered together by Philpot's sisters at their home in Silver Street, was moved down the hill in stages, but the Philpot Museum did not open to the general public until 1921. Its curators have included local historians Cyril Wanklyn and Henry Chessell and the internationally acclaimed author John Fowles, who made his home at Underdown Farm and then moved into town, to Belmont. The shot is seawards (centre), through the arches, from the Guildhall (left).
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