December 2008    Lyme Regis Daily Diary

Tues 23rd Carols Round the Tree by Rotary with Lyme Regis Town Band   The Shambles

Date To Be Advised: 'A Dickens of a Christmas at the Music Hall' by the Community Players

Last Year's (2007) events likely to be repeated:
dates to be advised - watch this space!
TheatreFriends  Christmas Bazaar  Father Christmas, raffle, cakes, bottle stall, gifts of all kinds, lots of local traders selling their wares!  Refreshments available. Do come and join us! Marine Theatre 10am to 2pm.

Best decorated: Shop Window, Pub and House competitions
Lantern Making Workshop  in the Baptist Church leading to
Lantern Parade (more categories this year) with the Lyme Regis Majorettes and Father Christmas all led by the Mayor and Mayoress
Prior to the Countdown to
Christmas Lights Switch-on Ceremony by the Mayor and Mayoress   Hot chestnuts by Rotary: Christmas tree bigger than ever. Lyme Regis Junior Band: The Shambles, Broad Street - don't be late.

Find the Christmas Message in the shop windows in Lyme Regis - a competition for all the family. Entry forms available from some local shops.

St Michael's School Christingle Service 2pm in St Michael's Church or School Hall Kingsway if wet.  All welcome

Colyton's Christmas Fayre 4pm - 8pm Trams running from Seaton to Colyton

Christmas Quiz in aid of the Lyme Regis Christmas Lights Fund. Raffle and 12 Christmas cakes as prizes Quizmaster Marion Bignall 7.30 for 8pm Nags Head   

Lyme Bay Photographic Club Christmas Dinner

Save the Children coffee morning and sale of Christmas gifts and cards 10.00am to 12.00 noon at the Royal Lion Hotel Broad Street, Lyme Regis bring & buy - cake stall - raffle £1 - includes coffee & biscuits.  Raising funds for the recent cyclone in Bangladesh

Seasonal Sale in aid of the Lym Zim Link, Volunteer Inn, Broad Street 11am - 3pm

Over 70's Christmas Lunch Tickets Tel 443058

Lyme Bay Chorale Christmas Concert, directed by Alex Davies, accompanist Nicholas Brown, soprano soloist Susie Hodges. Haydn - Little Organ Mass, Britten - Ceremony of Carols and more Carols to include audience. Wonderful buffet supper. Tickets Adults £7.50, Children £4 Family £20. 7.30pm St Michaels Church 7.30pm

Exeter Cathedral Carol Service  with the Exeter Philharmonic choir.  In aid of RNLI To book Tel 01752 850680

Christmas Antiques and Collectors Fair to raise funds for Lyme Arts Community Trust  10.30am - 3.30pm  Marine Theatre

Jurassic Art Exhibition 10.30 - 4.30pm Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre, Charmouth 01297 560772

World Human Rights Day : 60 years since member countries of the UN signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Auditions for Lyme Regis Dramatic Society's next play: St Michael's Business Centre 7.30pm

Christmas Tree Festival in the Baptist Church. Trees decorated by local organisations. To participate e-mail

13th 7th Anniversary (2001) of UNESCO awarding World Heritage Site status to West Dorset and East Devon coasts.

Christmas Party, theme to be announced  Lyme Bay Photographic Club.  All meetings are free to members. Visitors welcome. Entrance fee £1  The Club meets at the small Woodmead Hall from 7.30pm to 10pm

St Michael's Primary School Christmas Bazaar: Father Christmas, raffle, tombola, refreshments: St Michael's Primary School Friends Association 6 - 8pm. All welcome

'Friday Night Live' Christmas Party LymeRegisRadio at the Royal Lion 8pm  

Christmas Run: Delivery of Food for animals and hampers to staff at Ferne Animal Sanctuary by Axe Valley Mini Club.  Interested Mini owners invited to Tel 01297 24597

Lyme Regis Town Band Christmas Concert.  Tickets from Primary Colours, Broad Street and Uplyme Post Office.  7.30pm Woodmead Hall

Carols by Candlelight followed by coffee and mince pies, at Lyme Regis Baptist Church 18.30

Santa and his Sleigh will tour Pound Road, Pound Street, Westhill Road, Hill Rise, Clappentail Lane, Portland Court, Clappentail Park, Somers Road, Somers Field, Sidmouth Road, Blue Waters Drive, Silver Street, Broad Street, Coombe Street, Hill Road, View Road, Woodmead Road, Avenue Road, Springhill Gardens, Haye Lane, Haye Close, St George's Close, Uplyme Road.  4pm - 8pm In aid of CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children.  Organised by Hunters Lodge Inn Tel 01297 33286 if you would like Santa to telephone you when he is approaching the area

Santa and his Sleigh will  tour Dragons Hill, Overton Close, Fairfield Park, Charmouth Close, Charmouth Road, Lym Close, Anning Road, Kingsway, Summerhill Road, Henry's Way, Appleby Way, Elizabeth Close, Queens Walk, South Avenue, Colway Lane, Talbot Road, North Avenue, Manor Avenue, Bay View Road, Broad Street, Silver Street, Cobb Road, 4pm - 8pm  In aid of CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children.  Organised by Hunters Lodge Inn  Tel 01297 33286 if you would like Santa to telephone you when he is approaching the area

St Michael's Primary School Carol Service at St Michael's Church 6pm All welcome

Rotary Christmas street collection: Lyme Regis

Woodroffe School Annual Carol Concert  St. Michael's Parish Church, Lyme Regis at 6.30pm- Everybody Welcome

Woodroffe School End of Term

Rotary Christmas street collection: Lyme Regis

Rotary Christmas street collection: Lyme Regis in aid of Julia's House, the Dorset Children's Hospice  www.julias-house.org

Rotary Christmas street collection: Charmouth

The Backbeat Beatles Marine Theatre

25th Christmas Day 

Holy Communion (BCP), 08.00 - St Michael the Archangel (Church of England)

Christmas Eucharist, 10.00 - St Michael the Archangel (Church of England)

Family Service, 10.30 - The Baptist Church
   
Christmas Day Mass, 11.00 - St Michael & St George (Roman Catholic)

11am sharp  Christmas Morning Fancy Dress Swim, Charmouth: Be there by 10.30 for a chance to see all the fund-raisers in their (dry) fancy dress.  Organiser Mrs C Prosser: The Royal Oak - in aid of Lyme Regis RNLI

Seasonal Circuit Mens Sponsored Walk (10km or 6km)  8am from Weymouth Pavillion Weymouth in aid of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust To register Tel 01305 215315 or see www.weld-hospice.org.uk

Family Service, 10.30 - The Baptist Church

Model boats, created by Lyme Regis Sailing Club members from Christmas waste, sailing in the harbour 10.30am-ish!

Meekness and Majesty, 16.00 - Bethany Chapel (Coombe Street)

Quiet Time with God (a reflective service), 18.30 - The Baptist Church.

New Year's Eve Ceilidh Marine Theatre

1st January Lyme Lunge: fancy dress swim from the sand beach By West Dorset CLIC Sargent.  Be sponsored for your own local charity.  Free entry

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Christmas Tree Festival
in the Baptist Church.

Photo: Peter Wiles, Lymescapes

Trees decorated by local organisations.

To participate e-mail

Find the Christmas Message

in the shop windows in Lyme Regis -
a competition for all the family.

Entry forms available from some local shops.

RNLI Christmas Cards
 
for sale at the RNLI shop
 at Cobb Square

and
Martin Diplock's
at the top of Broad Street

Now Open
Cards for Good Causes Multi-Charity Christmas Card Shop

at the Tourist Information Centre, Church Street. Mon - Sat 10am -3pm

Jurassic Art Exhibition

An exhibition of the Jurassic Coast through the eyes of local artists Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre Charmouth

ICE SKATING RINK AT COLYTON STATION

Wanted for 2008's 60th Anniversary
of Lyme Regis Carnival

Do you have any old photographs, programmes, memories etc to include in an exhibition?

Former Carnival Queens
are invited to get in touch with the organisers
e-mail Lyme Regis Regatta and Carnival
or Tel 442220

Open Your Garden
for the RNLI

Interested in raising funds for the RNLI by opening your garden? 

Get in touch with them by mid-December Tel 01752 850680 for information or to receive a brochure

'Affordable Art Exhibition'

A chance to view and purchase works by local artists for under £100

Town Mill Galleries

Wanted for 2008's 60th Anniversary
of Lyme Regis Carnival

Do you have any old photographs, programmes, memories etc to include in an exhibition?

Former Carnival Queens
are invited to get in touch with the organisers
e-mail Lyme Regis Regatta and Carnival
or Tel 442220

Volunteers wanted

for Lyme Regis Regatta and Carnival Committee 

Tel. 01297 443696  or 442220

or e-mail Secretary