'Life in Lyme Regis 1900 -1950' by Martin Roundell Greene, Lyme Regis Museum: All talks all start at 11.00am. Only cost is the normal museum admission charge.
Summer Fayre: Barbecue, bar, Lyme Regis Town Band, Tombola: organised by the Friends Association, St Michaels Primary School, Kings Way 6pm - 9pm Inside if wet
'Jane Austen and the Navy' by Diana Shervington, Lyme Regis Museum: All talks all start at 11.00am. Only cost is the normal museum admission charge.
'Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital' by Ann Sankey. Gallery talk, Lyme Regis Museum 11.00am. Only cost is the normal museum admission charge.
'A Walk Around the Cobb' (weather permitting) by Ken Gollop. Meet 7pm at Lifeboat Shop in aid of Lyme Regis Museum
Beach Stall on Marine Parade Tombola, books, cakes, CDs DVDs bric-a-brac, jewellery; by St Michael's Parish Church
Village Fete Under cover if wet, 2pm Whitchurch Canonicorum nr Charmouth
Chard Concert Brass Concert
7.30pm Marine Parade Shelters, Weather permitting
Craft Fair 9am -4pm The Marine Theatre
The Monmouth Rebellion by John Lello. Gallery talk, Lyme Regis Museum 11.00am. Only cost is the normal museum admission charge.
Coastal Forum Meeting: Lyme Regis Town Council, 7pm at Lyme Regis Powerboat Club
James McNeil Whistler
by Sandra Lello
Gallery talk, Lyme Regis Museum 11.00am. Only cost is the normal museum admission charge.
 August 08
Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week
All the following Events were in aid of
Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week 2008 For full information; competition entry details and confirmation of times please see the full programme (at outlets throughout the town) and posters. Fun for all the family.
MX5 owners club rally: an exhibition of MX5 cars from all over the country on the Marine Parade to be judged by Rob Fossett
Lifeboat
Welcoming Display
off 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 Cobb area
'Meet the Lifeguards'
Fun, games and sport on the beach
Hawaiian Night disco,
the Cobb Arms
Live music
in the Royal Standard and at the Nags Head
20-20 Cricket
at the George IV ground, Uplyme
Lifeboat
Week Art Exhibition and Sale
by Lyme Regis Art Group. Marine Parade Shelters. 10 am to 5 pm.
Classic Car Display
by members of The Southern Milestone Club, Marine Parade 11.30
Morris Dancing
by 'Treacle Eater
Clog' Team at Cobb
Square and on the slipway with
'Quayside Cloggies'
and 'Dorset Buttons'
'Songs of Praise'
presented by
Lyme Regis Churches with the Lyme Regis Town Band playing. All welcome,
Marine Parade Shelters (East) 3pm
Fun Run
Start and Finish at West Gate on Marine Parade 17.30. Enter between 4 and
5.15pm at the Lifeboat Station
'Raven'
live music at the Rockpoint
Fresh Cakes,
Fruit and Produce stall,
fruit
donated by Forde Abbey Fruit Gardens; Marine Parade Shelters 10am
Tombola
All day on the Marine Parade
Belly Dancing:
watch, learn and join in.
The Shelters, Marine Parade
Children's Fancy
Dress Competition
Theatre Square (if wet at the Shelters) Individual and Group Prizes. Judged
by the Mayor and Mayoress 15.00
The RAF Falcons
Parachute display team,
landing on the Sand Bar
Chicago Bridge Drive:
Lyme Regis Golf Club. All welcome £5 includes
light refreshments Lyme Regis Golf Club 7pm
TheatreFriends
Lifeboat Week Family Quiz Night,
Marine Theatre
Lyme Regis Fire Brigade Exercise,
dealing with simulated 'Fire and Rescue' at The
Lifeboat Station; the Cobb 8pm
Guided Tour of the Lifeboat Station
by Rob Fossett and the Lifeboat Crew 11am
Children's Sand Sports;
The Sand Bar
Pavement
Artists Competition,
Marine Parade 14.00
Children's Crab
Fishing competition;
Cobb Harbour area 16.30
Live Music
at the Nags Head - country style music from Alan West and Steve Black
Emergency Services Day
Men and women from six
emergency services will be demonstrating their skills during Lyme Regis’ and
Charmouth Lifeboat Week. Coastguards, ambulance crews, the fire and rescue
service, the police, RNLI Lifeguards and the lifeboat will all be
performing a series of exercises on Emergency Services Day. The coastguard
helicopter from Portland and Weymouth’s two and a half million pound RNLI
all weather lifeboat will also be joining the demonstrations. Among the
exercises will be cliff and sea rescues, a rescue from mud and a car fire.
Emergency
Services Day will begin at 09.30 with a
convoy of vehicles – including
the lifeboat –
through the town to the seafront. Lifeboat crew members Martin Croad, Tim
Edwards and Elliot Herbert have been working closely with the RNLI Guild and
lifeboat station personnel to organise the week’s activities.
Open Art Competition
entries accepted at the Town Mill 1pm - 7pm
Entry Form
'How the Town Mill
kept Lyme Fed' by
Maurice Liddiard Gallery talk, Lyme Regis Museum 11.00am. Only cost is the
normal museum admission charge.
Open Golf
competition
Lyme Regis
Golf Club 442963
Annual
Somers Day Commemoration Parade from Langmoor Gardens to the Cobb:
celebration of Lyme
Regis & St George's, Bermuda commemorating
the founding of Bermuda in 1609; 11.15 - 12 noon
Representatives from Bermuda will attend.
Led by the Lyme Regis Junior Band
Tombola
All day on the Marine Parade
From 11am
Barbecue
on the Slipway run by the crew
Teddy Bear's Picnic.
Admission: Teddy Bears £1 accompanying children and adults free. 15.00
RNLI Pennant Race,
Lyme Regis Sailing
Club 7pm
Royal National Life
Boat Choral Concert
at St Michaels Church: Choral,
Classic and Piano solos
Yard of Ale
Competition, the Cobb Arms 20.00
Guided
Tour of the Lifeboat Station
by Rob Fossett and the Lifeboat Crew 11am
Children's Sand Sports;
The Sand Bar
Swimming Race for Children and Adults;
Cobb Gate to Harbour Mouth 17.00
Tug of War across the harbour mouth 19.30
'Fun at the Nags'
barbeque
and live music 7pm
Live
music
at the Royal Standard 20.00
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Gerry Brown and the Mission Hall Jazz Band; Tiger Tim's Hot Four and the Woodroffe School Jazz Band 
Master Class in Beer with Expert Rupert Ponsonby 
