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May Diary 2012 ~ Jazz/Blues and Beer Festival   ~  Fossil Festival ~ Charity Golf Day ~ May Day Fete

~ Blessing of the Boats ~

Jurassic Coast Earth Festival  4th May to 9th September 2012
Jurassic Coast Earth Festival is a celebration of England’s only natural World Heritage Site. Embracing our shared global heritage, it brings together an exciting 4 month programme of events, activities and exhibitions across the 95-mile Jurassic coastline.  Set against the backdrop of the London 2012 Games and the sailing and windsurfing events at Weymouth and Portland, the brings together an exciting 4 month programme of events, activities and exhibitions along the 95-mile Jurassic coastline; England’s only natural World Heritage Site.  Encouraging people to appreciate, understand and care for our natural heritage - today and tomorrow -the festival will start with the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival on 4-6 May 2012

 


May 3rd - 6th
  Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
A natural science and arts cultural extravaganza on the beautiful Jurassic coast. The Fossil Festival features live performances in street theatre, music and welcomes exhibitors from some of the UK's top natural science organisations and institutions; Natural History Museum, Natural England, British Antarctic Survey and many more...see www.fossilfestival.com  contact info@fossilfestival.com 

 

5th May
A Celebration of Time
featuring singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock and performance-poet John Hegley, for the Earth Festival programme.   Marine Theatre, Church Street, 8.00pm
 

Sunday 6th May

MAY DAY FETE 
Join the many local organisations who will have stalls around the arena. Stalls from local organisations with entertainment from the young people of Lyme.   Organised by Regatta & Carnival Committee  2pm Anning Road Recreation Ground.   All local organisations and charities are invited to have a stall (remember you keep all you take) 01297 442220. email: info@lymeregiscarnival.co.uk  

 

Monday 7th   Spring Bank Holiday

MAY DAY DUCK RACE
Watch the ducks race down the River Lym at noon raising money for the Lyme Regis Christmas Lights 
Further information: lymeregiscarnival.co.uk
 


Tuesday 8th
Rotary Charity Golf Day

  Lyme Regis Golf Club

 

Friday May 11th

Viewing and judging of the following competitions:  Dave King Cup: Folio of 6 mounted black and white prints, any subject.  Lyme 1200 Trophy: Folio of 6 mounted colour prints, any subject   Judge to be announced.  End Of Season Awards;  Regatta And Carnival Cups;  Colour prints competition, most points;  Regatta Trophy,  Colour prints competition, runner up;  Agnes Street Cup  Colour slides and DPI competition, most points;  Apollo Trophy  Colour slides and DPI competition, runner up;  Followed by end of season social evening.
Phil Wells Competition 2011   In your own time go to the village
of BroadWindsor, Dorset where five roads meet including the B3164 from Crewkerne, the B3163 from Beaminster and the B3162 Chard to Bridport road.  Take 10 views of your choosing in slide or digitally projected images format.  Think of historical, interesting images, close ups, details, colour, the village centre and its people, to display the life of a country village. The competition will be judged on March 30th 2012. Lyme Bay Photographic Club. 7.30pm Woodmead Hall

 


Friday 11th

Uplyme & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society

Full day coach trip to The Malvern Spring Flower Show. 

Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural SocietyDepart Uplyme Village Hall 7.45 am.  £30.50 for coach and admission extra £2 for non members. Please ring Brian 07831 533580 by April 19th to book your seat

 

13th - 19th MayChristian Aid Week

Sunday 13th  Rogation Sunday

Blessing of the Boats:
 
Rogation Sunday - when traditionally, the Lyme Regis Lifeboat
holds a Blessing of the Boats family service outside the boathouse at The Cobb. Wreaths are blessed and taken out to sea by the lifeboat where they are laid to commemorate those lost at sea. The service, with the Lyme Regis Town Band, starts at 15.00 (3.00pm) everyone is more than welcome to attend

 

Saturday 19th
Plant Sale & Coffee morning

Donations please for produce table (cakes, jam, veg, etc.) Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society.  Entry £1 Details 01297 444034)  9.30am -12am Uplyme & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society Uplyme Village Hall




Sunday 20th 
Silver Explorer Cruise ship visits Lyme Regis

A Royal Navy frigate
will be visiting Lyme Regis as a pre-Queen's Diamond Jubilee event.

Coast to Coast sponsored Bike Ride
In aid of Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. 
Not designed as a race, the event involves cycling through some of Dorset and Somerset’s most beautiful countryside. You can expect a mixture of quiet back roads, interspersed with some very demanding climbs and equally hairy descents. It definitely has something to offer for everyone!  The event offers two different cycling routes and distances.  For those who like a challenge, the 54 mile cycle which starts in the Somerset port of Watchet and finishes at West Bay near Bridport will not disappoint.  There is a shorter 11 mile route which begins at Drimpton in Dorset and also finishes at West Bay. Prior to the event, entrance fees are:  Adults (£10) & Under 16′s (£5).  On the day:  Adults (£15) & Under 16′s (£8) On-line registration opens on Monday 8th January 2012 information, please call: 01823 669604 or email: c2c@dsairambulance.org.uk  or see Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance
 

Wednesday 23rdUplyme & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society

Take your first steps to becoming a landscape detective’

by Kimmo Evans. Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society  7.30pm Uplyme Village Hall Details 01297 444034

 


Friday 25th- Sunday 27th May 2012   Lyme Regis 22nd Jazz/Blues and Beer Festival

Tickets
from Lyme Regis Tourist Information Centre - 01297 442138 

 

 

 


Events  May 2011 Watch out for these happening again in 2012


 

Paint your own Fossil Plaster Cast

Venue: Museum – small charge for materials 10am-4pm
 

‘Mary Anning’s Discoveries’

Talk by Tom Sharpe,  Curator of Palaeontology at Nati onal Museum of Wales. Suitable for age 12 and above. 11am – Venue: Museum FREE
 

Mary Anning Walk with Natalie Manifold.
Explore the paths and streets of Old Lyme as Mary knew them with expert guide Natalie Manifold.   Walk takes about 1½ hours.  Meet at Museum –1pm  -  adults £6/children £3  booking advisable for walks: telephone: 01297 443370 email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk or call in at Lyme Regis Museum, Bridge Street, Lyme Regis DT7 3QA

 

‘Bringing Ammonites Back to Life’

Talk by Professor Chris Paul. Drawing on recent research by the museum team and academic colleagues, Professor Paul explores how scientists investigate the lifestyle of extinct fossils and what we can reconstruct about the life of ammonites in particular.3pm – Venue: Museum FREE
 


Rockpool Ramble

A Rockpool Ramble with the Marine Warden to explore the fascinating creatures of the seashore. Cost: £4 per adult; £3 per child. Meet at the Anchor, Cobb Gate Car Park (10.30) Booking & further info: Nikki Hills 01297 560772 or
info@charmouth.org

Wolverhollow - Open Garden
for National Gardens Scheme
Wolverhollow, Monkton Wyld




Architecture of the Undercliff
Explore the jungle of the Undercliff National Nature Reserve amongst our UNESCO World Heritage cliffs. Each path along the Undercliff represents the land that time forgot. Discover the history of civilization in this secret place. Studded with forgotten ruins, the Undercliff is shrouded in mystery and, for every mystery, there is a history. Meet 9.30am outside Lyme Regis cinema. Advance booking recommended - see 
Architecture of the Undercliff

 

The Garden Fair  

With indoor and outside craft and plant stalls/ cafe/ BBQ / indoor children's area with craft activities and outside fun sports area with archery, and football skills run by Exeter Football club, also musical entertainment/ cake stall/raffle and much more. between 10am and 4pm at Colyton Grammar school, Colyford, Devon  Admission £3 adult/ children free.  Contact 01297 553211 for more information.

Quiz Night
in aid of The Hub (formerly The Club for Young People) Teams of up to 6, £2 per person 8pm at the Royal Standard


Annual Council Meeting
including election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor (Provisional)

U3A U3A logoMonthly Social Morning   Coffee 10:00-11:00am
Talk by Deborah Watkins from the Dorset Wildlife Trust. 11:00am-12:00noon  NB at the Marine Theatre

Cobb/Harbour/Boats: Charcoal Drawing Workshop 

Charcoal drawing for the terrified! Using charcoal and chalk to draw the subjects around the Cobb and harbour. 10am-4pm Cost: £25 for half-day; £45 all day. Max 10 students (18+). For booking & further info: lyn.whiteman@btinternet.com 


Auction in aid of The Hub The Nags Head

Mystery Tour of Gardens (in pictures) Kilmington Village Produce Association Talk 7.30pm in the Village Hall

Car Boot Sale
In aid of Candles on the Cobb; Lyme Regis/St Georges Twinning Association and The Hub.  Sellers 8.30am £5 per pitch: Buyers gates open 10am £1  Charmouth Road Park and Ride Field
 

THE SKY AT NIGHT
A stargazing party with experts from the Norman Lockyer Observatory.  A talk, refreshments and then outside for telescope views of stars, planets and an almost-full moon. A family event in celebration of Museums at Night weekend.
8.00pm

Talk by Carolyne Kardia (see exhibition details right) David West Gallery, The Town Mill

 U3A logo'Introduction to Croquet for U3A members' The Lym Valley Croquet Club has organized two sessions for U3A members 2.00pm Uplyme Playing Field.  Contact Philippa for more information 01297 442181


Open Garden afternoon.  Cream teas, plant sale, bring and buy, in aid of Lyme Regis Action Medical Research,  by kind permission of Mr & Mrs McGarry.  Lower Ware, Lower Ware Lane




Mark Hix's Kitchen Table
Join Mark at his Charmouth home for an open cooking class where he will demonstrate dishes using the best British seasonal produce around. 11.30 - 3pm Cost: £175.00. 6 participants. For booking & further information: 01689 855390 or augusta@hixfoodetc.co.uk 

Woodmead Social Club
The Bar is Open from 7.30pm for an Evening of Music and Convivial Chat in Lyme's Premier Community Meeting Place.  LymeRegisTV  presents:
LYME LIVE! Pip Evans interviews our Lyme Star of the Month, this month, Local Election Poll-Topper, Lucy Campbell. Plus Invited Local Musician followed at 8.30 by:
OPEN MIC Singers, Songwriters, Poets and Stand-ups are invited to demonstrate their talents!  Prize for the Act of the Night, chosen by the audience.  featuring Round One of the LymeRegisTV Song Contest  Final in ArtsFest Week, 19th September.  (Sponsored by Axe-Music, Axminster)  FREE ADMISSION  Woodmead Halls, Hill Road, DT7 3PG


Jurassic Coast Run: Vintage Motorcycle Club, Dorset section visit Lyme Regis arriving at The Gun Cliff around lunchtime from Weymouth, via Uplyme, returning via Charmouth and West Bay Line up of over 100 bikes at the Guncliff, around midday.  Come and view the bikes and talk to the riders

Quiz in aid of Royal British Legion The Nags Head

Theatre Friends Quiz Night
Marine Theatre  7.30pm for 8pm start      

“The House of Faberge”
 a presentation by Dr Colin Lattimore, OBE: organised by The Friends of Lyme Regis Museum2.30 Woodmead Hall  Members £2    Visitors £3    including refreshments Membership details from Sylvia Oliver  01297 445537

Just Fair Laughs:
Comedy@The Marine Theatre



 Bridport and West Dorset Open Studios

RAF Reunion Evening
Calling all RAF veterans! A reunion at the Museum to celebrate the RAF's contribution to Lyme's wartime history. For info: 01297 444463 

Plant Market by Kilmington Village Produce Association.  10.30am Kilmington Village Hall


Taunton Dean Male Voice Choir
Sings for Lyme Regis RNLI featuring soloist Jacqui Piper. Tickets £4.50 from the Lifeboat Shop; Martin Diplock, Broad Street or on the door 7.30pm Woodmead Hall.  Doors open 7pm

Wolverhollow - Open Garden for National Gardens Scheme, Wolverhollow, Monkton Wyld

Lyme Regis Sailing club OPEN DAY.
Come Sailing with an experienced club sailor
( Offer open to adults 18 and above, weather permitting. )  Meet the Club Members.  Sample the food from our galley and have a drink from the bar.   'We would love to see you.'   from 10.00am.  To arrange a sailing session  please email Shelagh Mercer  at mercerrs@aol.com

CELEBRATING THE LERRET DAY
An all-day celebration of the historic Dorset fishing vessel, the lerret
. Newly-built lerret Littlesea and 1923 motherboat Vera will be launched from Cobb Gate beach at 11am for a ceremonial row to the Cobb, (land at Victoria Pool) where there will be an evocative exhibition of memories from lerret fisherfolk -including photographs of Lerret fisherfolk, and a storytelling tent in which to hear recorded Lerret memories surrounded by nets, floats, pots and stones of those fishing days. Visitors with memories of Lerret fishing that they would like to share can record their stories, which will be added to the museum’s archive. If you have stories of lerret fishing, record them for our oral history library. From 11am – museum open free For info & booking: 01297 443370 or www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk  and see right


LYME’S LITERARY LINKS
David Coates talks on great literary figures with Lyme Regis connections
. Jane Austen, who wrote about Lyme in Persuasion, and John Fowles in French Lieutenant’s Woman are the most notable, but also children’s author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, who came to Lyme in 1904 and wrote about the town in Little Pig Robinson; J R R Tolkein, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, who regularly visited Lyme for his summer holidays between 1905 and 1910; Henry Fielding, novelist and playwright, who visited Lyme as a young man and tried to elope with a 15-year-old heiress; Francis Palgrave, poet and editor of the poetry anthology Golden Treasurey; P G Wodehouse, G K Chesterton and Ivy Compton-Burnett.  2.30pm Lyme Regis Museum



Half Term Begins

 


 Lyme Regis RNLI Flag Day
 

Soup Kitchen

Come and join Amnesty International, Lyme Regis Group for lunch at The Soup Kitchen Admission £5 for choice of homemade soup, bread and slice of birthday cake to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International.  12 - 2 pm at St Michael’s Church Hall, Church Street, Lyme Regis.  

Concert of Music and Song
Performed by local youngsters and artistes in aid of Save the Children 7.30pm Lyme Regis Baptist Church, Broad Street


A Resounding Tinkle
Patchwork Theatre: Marine Theatre



Lyme Regis National  Waterski Race hosted in association with the Lyme Regis Powerboat Club. see:  British Water Ski Racing


Lyme Regis Bowls Club Club House Coffee Morning
Refreshments  -  Cakes  -  Plants  -  Books  -  Tombola  Test your skill at Target Bowls  -   Have a go at bowling with tuition.
 Open to all.  10.30am 
Lyme Regis Bowls Club  Monmouth Beach


CD & Record Fair
Marine Theatre




Barbecue
2pm Charmouth Beach Car Park
& Duck Race
 Starts 3pm Charmouth Footbridge organised by Charmouth School PTA in aid of sports facilities at the school



Charmouth Fayre
Music and fireworks in aid of local causes 7 -11pm Barr's Lane Playing Field

Wootton Fitzpaine Village Fete
Come and enjoy a traditional village fete and be entertained by Woodroffe Band;  "No Mean Feet" Appalachian Dancers; The Honeysuckle Hydrotherapy Dog Agility Display Team;  Charmouth Fire Brigade;  Alongside all this entertainment will be a wealth of fete favourites;  Cream Teas, BBQ, Licenced Bar;  Fun Side Stalls & Games;  Arts & Crafts;  Vintage Vehicles;  Entry fee of £1.50 for adults which includes free entry into the Prize Draw;  Free entry for children.  The fete will take place whatever the weather as we have the use of the Village Hall and a Marquee.  All proceeds raised will go towards the replacement of the Village Hall heating boiler and our Village Church.  The fete will be opened by Rev. Stephen Skinner  - 1.30pm  Wootton Fitzpaine

Quiz Night
in aid of Lyme Regis Majorettes, 7pm Woodmead Hall


Nathan Laube organ recital.
A star among young classical musicians, concert organist Nathan Laube has quickly earned a place among the organ worlds elite performers. His brilliant playing, audience friendly programming and gracious demeanor have thrilled audiences and presenters across the United States and in Europe, and have earned high praise from both critics and peers alike. We are delighted to have this brilliant young American visit Lyme Regis to play the new Skrabl organ. Tickets £10/8 child £5 from the TIC on 01297 442138  7.30pm St Michaels Church For further info: www.lymeregisorganappeal.com 


 April         June

Note:    Dogs now banned

from the town's main beaches.  Permitted on Back beach, Church Cliff & Monmouth beaches
 

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Grants to Local Organisations

Requests from local community groups and organisations for financial assistance towards projects which are deemed by the authority to be of benefit to the community.  Groups are invited to submit full details of their proposal for which financial assistance is requested.  Packs are now available for the Town Council's annual grants meeting.  Please download a pack below or telephone the Town Council offices to request one:

Tel 01297 445175
 

Blessing the boats

The annual Blessing of the Boats service is being held at the lifeboat station on the Cobb at 3pm.

Everyone is welcome to the inter-denominational service which has become a Lyme Regis tradition for many years.

The town band will provide music for the hymns, and the service will be attended by local clergy, civic leaders and, of course, the lifeboat crew, fishermen and all boat users as well as residents and visitors.

The service ends with the laying wreaths at sea by the lifeboat crew.

 
Exhibitions May
 

Fossil walks in May

Get Fossiling on the Jurassic Coast! Join one of Lyme Regis Museum’s famous fossil walks along this historic stretch of Dorset coast with Geologist Paddy Howe and Marine Biologist Chris Andrew. Some families return time and again to search with Paddy and Chris among the sand and rocks for fossils that have been washed down onto the beach after 190 million years. For adults and children alike, it’s an unforgettable experience.

Your fossil walk ticket gives you FREE access to the museum where you will be able to see displays of rare fossils, learn all about Mary Anning, the famous early palaeontologist who once lived on the site of the museum and much more. Cost: £10 adults, children and students £5.

Each walk is limited to 15 people per guide. Start times for walks vary according to the tides and take about three hours. Walks can fill up quickly on the day so before traveling any great distance please contact the museum and book a place: telephone 01297 443370 or email walks@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

May

            Friday 4 May 2012 09.00

            Saturday 5 May 2012 9.45

            Sunday 6 May 2012 10.45

            Monday 7 May 2012 11.30

            Tuesday 8 May 2012 12.15

            Friday 18 May 2012 09.00

            Saturday 19 May 2012 09.30

            Sunday 20 May 2012 10.15

            Monday 21 May 2012 10.45

            Tuesday 22 May 2012 11.15

            Thursday 24 May 2012 12.30

            Friday 25 May 2012 13.00

            Saturday 26 May 2012 13.30

 Each walk is limited to 15 people per guide. Start times for walks vary according to the tides and take about three hours. Walks can fill up quickly on the day so before traveling any great distance please contact the museum and book a place: telephone 01297 443370 or email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk  or call into Lyme Regis Museum shop on Bridge Street

 

 

Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society Summer Show 

Schedules now available from Uplyme Post Office, Raymond's Hill Post Office, Ginger Beer, Broad Street, Lyme Regis
 

Walkers

Do take advice about safe tide times before setting off for more than fifteen minutes hike along our beautiful beaches - what appears to be an easy bit of ground to scramble over is more likely to be a treacherous mud slide - don't take a chance!
 

All local organisations and charities

are invited to have a stall at the
May Day Fete
Playing Field, Anning Road

Tel  01297 442220.
email: info@lymeregiscarnival.co.uk

 

Soft toys/unwanted Birthday/Christmas gifts

- pristine condition please - wanted for the Lifeboat Guild's Lifeboat Week RNLITombola Stall

Please take them to the Lifeboat Shop or Tel 442244

 
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are in Lyme Regis, Dorset (01297) unless otherwise stated and everyone is welcome to attend
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