Daily Diary of Events ~  May 2011

1st May

  Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 'Maritime Lyme'

   MAY DAY FETE 
Join the many local organisations who will have stalls around an arena. There will be displays from the young people of Lyme to entertain you.  By Regatta & Carnival Committee  All local organisations and charities are invited to have a stall 01297 442220. email: info@lymeregiscarnival.co.uk 2pm Anning Road Recreation Ground


Tuesday 11th 2011  
Rotary Charity Golf Day
Lyme Regis Golf Club

Sunday 29th  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 (short) service, with the Lyme Regis Town Band, starts at 15.00 (3.00pm) everyone is more than welcome to attend

Date TBA
'Me and My Girl'  by Lyme Regis Operatic Society, Marine Theatre.

Events  May 2010 Watch out for these happening again in 2011

Fossil Festival events in the museum:  10am and 12 noon – fossil experts Paddy and Chris with some of their finds; 11.30am ‘Mary Anning’s Discoveries’ talk by Tom Sharpe of National Museum of Wales;  12.30pm Family Fossil Walk with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential £9 adults, £5 children;  3pm ‘Introducing the Ammonite’ talk by Stephen Locke;  also, in the marquee on the beach:  PLUS ALL DAY – Fossil Art: join Phil Anslow and make your own fossil plaster cast;  AND ALL DAY – the museum’s Jurassic garden is on display.  All entry and talks free - everyone welcome.   All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Robyn Hitchcock 8.30pm Marine Theatre

 'Stackridge'  The Legends Return to Lyme Quirky, Eccentric, Eclectic. Opening the first Glastonbury Festival, and produced then by Beatles mentor, Sir George Martin. Their new album sees them sounding as contemporary and fresh as bands half their age. Recent festival appearances have included Glastonbury again, and Cropredy, creating even more interest! Unique! Unmissable!  www.stackridge.net    7.30 Woodmead Halls. Tickets £12  from Tourist Information Centre, 01297 442138;  Focus, 62 Broad Street;  ONLINE:  Lyme Regis TV

Open Garden  Wolverhollow, next to Monkton Wyld Church

Food and Flea Market at the Town Mill

Mon   Spring Bank Holiday

Family Fossil Walk with Lyme Regis Museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children  at 1:30pm. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Policy Committee Meeting Lyme Regis Town Council 7pm The Guildhall

‘Lyme’s Literary Links’ David Coates talks about Lyme’s famous authors and their work Lyme Regis Museum at 2:30pm. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Lyme Live  featuring local interviews and music at By the Bay

 Die Roten Punkte  Marine Theatre


  U3A COFFEE MORNING  This is a time to socialise and to talk to group leaders. You can sign up for new interests. All welcome 10.00am to 12noon.  Lyme Regis Theatre.

'The Healing Garden' by Dr Gavin Haig  Kilmington Village Produce Association  7.30pm Kilmington Village Hall


The Dorset Art and Craft Show Unique shopping event with over 30 quality craft exhibitors 10am - 4pm Woodmead Halls Tel 07730 557090 or see www.dorsetartandcraftshow.co.uk

Lyme Regis National (Round 1) Waterski Race hosted in association with the Lyme Regis Powerboat Club.  Length of course: approx. 4 miles 

‘Know Your Fossils’  Talk by enthusiastic fossil experts Paddy and Chris.  Learn how fossils lived, how to find and identify, and how to handle them. Lyme Regis Museum  2.30pm. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

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

Lyme Bay Chorale 'Dulciter Humiliter' directed by Alex Davies. Organist Greg Morris. Program to include Kodaly - Laudes Organi, Haydn - Te Deum. 7.30pm St Michaels Church Tickets £10 to include supper from Hilary Highet's, Broad Street,  Tel 443824

Eclectica! Concerts in the West: Marine Theatre

Open Gardens Thistlegate House in aid of Dorset ME Support Group.  Stalls, games, cream teas, musical entertainment 2-5pm on the A35 at Charmouth Tel 01297 33158 or see www.dmesg.org.uk

Christian Aid Week

Rotary Charity Golf Day Lyme Regis golf Club

Bookings now being taken for  'Help  for Heroes' Concert for the Troops @ Uplyme Village Hall  see Weds 23rd & Thurs 24th June 

 Resolutions Meeting  Uplyme WI. 2.30pm Uplyme Village Hall

‘Jane Austen’s Games and Divertissements’ Talk with Diana Shervington whose grandmothers were granddaughters of Jane Austen’s brother Edward  Lyme Regis Museum  at 2.30pm.  Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Thurs 13th
Family Fossil Walk with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris.10.00am Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children.  Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk


Family Fossil Walk with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris.10.45am Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Elena Vorotko (piano) to include Chopin 24 Preludes 7.30 The Church of St Candida, Whitchurch Canonicorum Tel 01297 489629

'A NIGHT AT THE OPERA'  A set 3-course menu will accompany some very special and spectacular voices performing favourite pieces from the world of opera and operetta.  By the Bay

Pamper Evening Cancer Research £5 includes glass of wine and nibbles 7 - 10pm Uplyme Village Hall Tel 442210 or 24318


Street Collection for Christian Aid

Plant Market, Kilmington Village Produce Association 10.30am Kilmington Village Hall

Coffee Morning and Ploughman's Lunches, cakes and fancy goods for Christian Aid 10am -3pm Baptist Church Hall

Family Fossil Walk with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris.11.30am Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children.  Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

The Larry Miller Band:  The Legends Return to Lyme 

On ‘Museums at Night’ weekend.  A celebration – conservation work on Lyme’s museum building will be complete.  Drinks from 6.30pm followed by A talk ‘George Vialls, Architect of the Museum’ at 7.30pm Max Hebditch tells how a Victorian architect came to be designer of the museum, guildhall and other buildings in Lyme. Free admission and everyone welcome. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Spring Auction in aid of Lyme Regis Pre School  8pm Ship Inn, All welcome

Family Fossil Walk  12.00 noon with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk,

Open Garden and Bluebell Wood walk and Cream Tea fundraiser in aid of the Organ Appeal, by kind permission of Minnie Churchill, £2.50  2 - 5pm Ware House, Ware Lane, Lyme Regis

 Dorset Residents' Week 2010  This year the event is being promoted across the whole of Dorset, so that all residents can take advantage of some great money saving days out. 
 
Family Fossil Walk  at 12.45pm  with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk
 
Family Fossil Walk  at 1.30pm  with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children.
Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Human Rights in Zimbabwe Two visiting speakers will talk about the situation in the country as seen from their individual perspectives and experience. Afterwards there will be a discussion. Stephen Zenda, who was born in Zimbabwe and lived there until 2002, and worked with the UN and NGOs on agricultural projects in the country. Franco Henwood was Amnesty International UK’s country co-ordinator for Zimbabwe. Sponsored by the Lyme Regis group of Amnesty International. 5:30 pm  Hallett Court, Queen’s Walk, Lyme Regis. The event is free and everyone is welcome. For more information call 01297 445707.

'Use It or Lose It' Meeting  come and find out what the Action Forum of Lyme Regis and Uplyme is all about.  7-9pm Marine Theatre

Charmouth Annual Parish Council Meeting, 7.30pm The Elms

‘Thomas Hardy – Man of Wessex’  at 2.30pm Jack Thomas talks about Thomas Hardy’s life and work. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE A talk for the U3A by Ewart Walker (Resident of East Africa for 50 years) at Uplyme Village Hall at 2.30pm.

Quiz Night TheatreFriends  Marine Theatre

Royal British Legion Lyme Regis Branch QUIZ NIGHT  Calling clubs, organisations and independent teams of no greater than 6  £2 per person. Trophy and other prizes.  7.30pm The Nag’s Head  For further details please phone: 443999

Martin Cousin Concerts in the West, Marine Theatre

Annual Council Meeting (Mayor Making Ceremony)

The Importance of Being Oscar Original Theatre Company, Marine Theatre

Live music evening with Mark Foxhall: some chilled sounds to relax and unwind to at the end of the week. By the Bay

‘George Somers and The Tempest Connection’  at 2.30pm  Imogen Thomas on how Shakespeare’s play reflects the discovery of Bermuda. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Anyone for Tennis? An Open Day at Charmouth Tennis Club.  2-4pm Lower Sea Lane, All welcome

Masquerade Charity Ball in aid of the Blue Cross - Britain's Pet Charity, dinner, drinks and dancing to 'Raven' £18 includes Hog Roast and 2 course dinner  Uplyme Village Hall Tickets Tel: 07921 617231

'Taster Session' with Lyme Regis Gig Club: email: henrycbarlow@google-mail.com

'Pirates of Poole' rowing a gig, raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support, Wessex Heartbeat, RNLI, The Royal Marine Charity Trust Fund and Headway.  Arrive at the Cobb in the afternoon, from Exmouth - part of a 250 mile trip.  Celebrations at the Harbour Inn from 8pm.

‘The Boot’ and ‘The Coprolite Table’   2.30pm  Talks in the series History of Lyme in Ten Objects  Jack Thomas and Richard Bull tell the special stories surrounding these items in the museum’s collection. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

'Fuschias and Pelargoniums' by Brian Carlson.  Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society 7.30pm Uplyme Village Hall

An Evening of British Romantic Music for Clarinet and Piano by Kevin Hurst 7.30pm St Peter and St Paul's Church

Adjourned Annual Council Meeting  Lyme Regis Town Council 7pm The Guildhall

 The Landmark Trust’s Historian, Caroline Stanford, will be giving a free public talk in 2.30pm, the Masonic Hall, Lyme Regis on the work of the Landmark Trust and its discoveries so far at Belmont, the former home of the author John Fowles.  The buildings’ preservation charity has taken on the house in Pound Street in Lyme Regis.  All are welcome

Family Fossil Walk 10.00am  with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children.  Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

 Half Term
Family Fossil Walk  10.45am  with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Open Garden:  Wolverhollow, next to Monkton Wyld Church

Preview of exhibition ‘Old Lyme’  6.30pm at the Malthouse.  Items from the museum’s past exhibitions about Lyme. Free admission and everyone welcome.‘Old Lyme’ runs from 29 May to 6 June 11am to 4pm in the Malthouse

  Dorset Art Weeks  see right

Lyme Regis Art Group Annual Exhibition  10am to 5pm Woodmead Hall


Family Fossil Walk  11.30am  with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children.  Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Professor Ian Tracey (Liverpool Cathedral) Organ recital on the new Skrabl organ The video screen will be used again to allow the audience a full view of the organist playing! - the last celebrity recital was sold out with a capacity audience of over 400 and 100 had to be turned away - do book early to ensure a seat!

Emily Ross (Oboe) 7.30pm The Church of St Candida, Whitchurch Canonicorum Tel 489629

Something Fishy Moonhag, Marine Theatre

Open Garden:  Wolverhollow, next to Monkton Wyld Church

Family Fossil Walk  12 noon  with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk

Rotary Book Sale  Marine Parade Shelters

Cream Teas and home-made cakes St Andrews Community Hall, Charmouth, in aid of the hall


Lyme Regis Art Group Annual Exhibition  10am to 5pm Woodmead Hall

Family Fossil Walk  12.45  with the museum’s famous fossil hunters Paddy and Chris. Advance booking essential. £9 adults, £5 children. Lyme Regis Museum. All enquiries and booking:  telephone: 01297 443370  email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk