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April Daily Diary 2012:   ~ Easter Bonnet Parade ~   Art Exhibition  ~  Tons of Money ~  Lyme Regis Annual Town Meeting ~

Sunday 1st

Wildlife Walk to Ware
Join the RSPB for a FREE guided walk starting outside the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis. Head up out of the town towards Ware Cliffs to see what wildlife we can find, from spring migrants and drumming woodpeckers to wild flowers, insects and mammals. Show your walk ticket to Aroma Coffee House opposite the theatre to receive 10% off food and drink on the day.  Duration:  1 hour 30 mins (approx). Meet 10.30am. Marine Theatre  Please bring waterproof clothing and sensible shoes. Some binoculars will be available on the day.

Tuesday 3rd

Tri-meeting at Bridport Masonic Hall (with Beaminster, Bridport and Lyme Bay Clubs)  Lyme Bay Photographic Club. 7.30pm Woodmead Hall

Thursday 5th  End of Tax Year


Larry Crowne (12A) (99m)
Comedy Drama starring Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts. After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college. Silver Screen Spring Season. Presented in Digital Projection with 6-channel Digital sound. Tickets £3.25 including tea or coffee  10.30am. Regent Cinema



Friday 6th   Good Friday

WONDERMENTALIST
Matt Harvey:
Marine Theatre

 

Sunday 8th  Easter Sunday

Easter Bonnets by the Albany Guest HouseEASTER BONNET PARADE
Make an Easter Bonnet or just enjoy the spectacle of people in the parade wearing their Easter Bonnets.  Further information: lymeregiscarnival.co.uk

 



Mon 9th - Sat 14th FORMBY Salida Productions Marine Theatre

 

Monday 9th    Easter Monday

Wednesday 11th

Another Popular Quiz Night
by Lyme Bay Photographic Club. Teams of up to 6 people £2.00 per adult, £1.00 for children. Winning team prizes and a raffle. Children and families welcome.  The Inn Plaice, Lyme Regis, 7.30 pm start.

Friday 13th          

Presentation on the Marine Shelters by Vickie Stickler   Lyme Bay Photographic Club. 7.30pm Woodmead Hall

 

Sunday 15th

The Great Dorset Beach Clean
is now in it's twenty fourth year.  The event is coordinated by Dorset Countryside's Coastal Ranger team but it's you that makes the day a success. Do you feel that something needs to be done to clean up our beaches?  Come and help this event really make a positive impact on one of your most treasured leisure resources.  Don't forget to bring your friends and family and why not ask your employer to 'field a team' for the couple of hours on the day.  Info Email: j.penney@dorsetcc.gov.uk

The Great Dorset Beach Clean: Lyme Regis  
It’s a pleasant morning’s social event - all welcome. Wear sturdy gloves and boots - a 'picker upper' saves bending too!  Bags provided. Meet by the Slipway at the Cobb. 
The Great Dorset Beach Clean:
Charmouth Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre; 
Seatown
Annual Beach Clean: meet at National Trust Land Rover at Seatown; 
The Great Dorset Beach Clean Eype:  noon meet at Eype Beach car park

Monday 16th  Back to School
 

 

Wednesday 18th - Saturday 21st TONS OF MONEY
‘Tons of Money’ is a farce for our times! First produced at the National Theatre in 1986 with a cast that included Michael Gambon and Simon Cadell, we are proud to welcome the Lyme Regis Dramatic Society with a side-splitting production that will leave you rolling in the aisles.  Set in the 1920s, a couple have come into money and are desperate to keep it from an army of creditors. But, in the true tradition of farce, it’s never as easy as it seems! This hilarious escapade includes a sharp-witted yet hard-of-hearing aunt, two faked deaths, numerous hapless servants and one of the most celebrated female characters in the history of farce. Guaranteed fun for all! Lyme Regis Dramatic Society's Spring Production Marine Theatre 


Wednesday 19th

Last day to book your Full day coach trip to The Malvern Spring Flower Show on Friday 11th May. 

with Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society, Depart 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



Saturday 21st
 

St Georges Day concert
 with Lyme Regis Town Band, Woodmead Hall

Sun 22 April

GROWING UP BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES
Brian Patten  Marine Theatre



Monday 23rd  St Georges Day
 

 

Tuesday 24th

Flax, Linen and Sailcloth
by R.G. Allwood.  Lyme Regis Society, 2.30pm Woodmead Hall

 

Wednesday  25th Uplyme & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society

‘Something Nasty in the Garden’
talk by Pippa Greenwood  from Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time.

Pippa Greenwood is a British plant pathologist. She appears frequently on the BBC's long running Gardeners World television programme and has been a regular panelist on Gardeners' Question Time on BBC Radio 4 since 1994.  She studied at Durham University, where she trained as a botanist. She then went on to gain an MSc in crop protection at Reading University. For eleven years she ran the Royal Horticultural Society's Plant Pathology Department at Wisley.  In 2007, she made a return visit to Durham University, where she was awarded an honorary doctorate.  Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural SocietyTickets £6 Members.  £8 Non members - available from Uplyme Post Office, Ginger Beer, Lyme Regis or ring Ann Prince 01297 443793.  7.30pm  Uplyme Village Hall
 

Friday 27th          

Viewing and judging of the following competitions:  Cyril Nimo Trophy – 3 colour slides, any subject;  Cobb Trophy – sequence of 6 slides with a linked theme;  Jubilee Cup – mini AV presentation telling a story, 20 slides.  Judge to be announced at a later date   Lyme Bay Photographic Club. 7.30pm Woodmead Hall

DIABEL CISSOKHO
Marine Theatre

Saturday 28th

Stroke Awareness Day

The  Garden Fair
 
With indoor and outside craft and plant stalls/ cafe/ BBQ / indoor children's area with craft activities. Also musical entertainment/ cake stall/raffle and much more. 10am & 4pm.
Admission £3 adult/ children free. Colyton Grammar School, Colyford, Devon. Contact 01297 553211 for more information.

Sunday 29th

TWO FOUR SIX EIGHT!    
Shoofly Theatre SEE-PLAY-do SUNDAY  
A family show for 4-7 year olds This is the second event in our see-play-sunday series. Craig has been invited to his best friend's Birthday Party. There is an invitation to read, presents to wrap and cakes to buy.  Who will explain the rules of Musical Chairs?  Will there be enough balloons?  Marine Theatre   

 


Just some of the many events which happened in April 2011

Lerrets take to the seaALL BOATS HAVE A STORY
Boatbuilder Gail McGarva talks about traditional wooden boats and the building of their modern-day ‘daughters’. Last year Gail built a lerret – a working boat wholly native to Lyme Bay. 2.30pm
Lyme Regis Museum




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. Cost: £175.00. 6 participants.
11.30-3.00pm  For booking & further information: 01689 855390 or augusta@hixfoodetc.co.uk

Fashion Show by Charmouth Brownies
St Andrews Community Hall 5pm



Collegium Regale the Choral Scholars of Kings College, Cambridge
concert  in aid of The Lyme Regis Organ Appeal. Their programme will include a range of styles from traditional classical, early polyphony, spiritual songs to their own arrangements of contemporary material and perhaps even some Michael Jackson! I invite you to come and enjoy some fabulous choral singing, their organ scholar will also play the odd solo on the new Skrabl too! A world famous choir and surely not one to miss.  Tickets Adults £10/8 children £5 from the TIC in advance on or possibly at the door. 7.30pm at St Michael's Parish Church, Lyme Regis  
"I am delighted to announce that the organ appeal has now raised over £300,000 pounds, the balance of the final cost of £352,000 having being covered by short-term private loans. We still need to raise a further £52,000 to enable all loans to be settled. A superb range of concerts are now scheduled for 2011 at the Parish Church in aid of the appeal, please take a look at our website  www.lymeregisorganappeal.com   which has full details of the appeal and future concerts." Alex Davis


Ladies Shopping & Pamper Evening
in support of the RSPCA   Pamper treatments and a wide range of trade stands.  Free goody bags for the first 50 ladies plus a grand raffle.  Tickets £2 in advance or £2.50 on the door which includes a free glass of wine.  at Uplyme village hall from 7pm.  Tickets available from the RSPCA shops in Axminster and Bridport, The Terrace in Lyme Regis and Devon Edge hairdressers in Charmouth.  Enquiries: Tel 01297 560316 or email sam.ricketts@hotmail.co.uk

Making Boats in Stained Glass 
Come and be creative with glass! Through a series of demonstrations, you‘ll cut glass, copper foil and solder a small boat in stained glass. £15. Eight max (age 16+).
  2.00 - 5.00pm For booking: 07979 013641 or annpengellystainedglass@hotmail.co.uk

Coffee Morning
Home-made cakes and cards, craft stall, raffle, bric a brac 10 -12 noon Abbeyfield, Silver Street

Monthly Social Morning with Coffee  10:00am-11:am followed by  
"ARE YOU READY FOR THE REFERENDUM"
  
11:00am-12:00 noon a talk by Margaret Rose of the Electoral Reform Society, Woodmead Hall

 

 
Mary Anning Walk

Explore the paths and streets of Old Lyme as Mary knew them with expert guide Natalie Manifold. 
13:30  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




Guided Rockpooling
Investigate the rock pools of Broad Ledge with museum geologist Paddy Howe and marine biologist Chris Andrew. Sessions last one and a half hours.  2.45pm For info & booking: 01297 443370 or www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk



Lyme Regis Powerboat Club AGM
11am The Clubhouse, Monmouth Beach

KNOW YOUR FOSSILS
A talk on how fossils lived, and how to find, identify and handle, with the museum’s fossil experts Paddy Howe and Chris Andrew. 2.45pm
Lyme Regis Museum


Pirate escapade -

Can you climb the rigging and ring the bell….. walk the plank?   Survive in the wild if you get shipwrecked ..light a fire without matches….build a shelter…cook a tasty snack?  Cost £29 per person 8 years - 14 years  9.00 - 4.00pm.  Woodberry Down Activity Centre   Colway Lane, Lyme Regis, Telephone/Fax: 01297 444655 E-mail: info@woodberrydown.co.uk  www.woodberrydown.co.uk


Theatre Friends Quiz Night
Marine Theatre



The BIG Breakfast Lyme Regis
 
in aid of Cancer Research UK. Tickets £6 to include orange juice, full English Breakfast, toast and preserves, tea or coffee. Bacon sandwich £3.  8am to 2 pm at the Baptist Church Hall or we will deliver - call Alison on 01297  446057.

Annual Town Meeting of Electors
under the chairmanship of the Mayor, Councillor Mrs M Ellis.  Residents whose names appear on the Register of Electors for Lyme Regis are entitled to attend the meeting and to raise for debate any issue concerning the town.   Priority will be given to those questions notified in advance.    email:enquiries@lymeregistowncouncil.gov.uk  or The Council Offices, Guildhall Cottage, Church Street Tel: 445175. 7.30pm, Woodmead Halls Free parking at the Woodmead car park for the duration of the meeting.
 

Opening Match Lyme Regis Bowls Club  2.30pm. Lyme Regis Bowls Club   Monmouth Beach
 

 Race Night
 Support the Seasiders.  £5 a ticket or £40 table of ten, includes hot supper.  Lyme Regis Football Club - Tel:  07814 114973

Rockpool Ramble
A Rockpool Ramble with the Marine Warden to explore the fascinating creatures of the seashore. Meet at the Anchor, Cobb Gate Car Park 11.30am.  Cost: £4 per adult; £3 per child. Booking & further information: Nikki Hills 01297 560772 or info@charmouth.org


Lyme Bay Chorale Concert
directed by Alex Davies present a concert for Maritime Lyme 2011 and Passiontide. Stanford - Songs of the Fleet, Sumsion - They that go down to the sea in ships, Ogden - Were you there? and Christ has no body, Brahms - Requiem. Piano soloists and accompanists Aleks Szram and Nicholas Brown. Tickets £10 from; A Kind of Blue, Broad street, Lyme Regis.
4.00pm St Michaels Church


'Call my Bluff' quiz
with Mr Brian Ducker, Uplyme WI, Uplyme Village Hall


Legends Return to Lyme Regis: THE HAMSTERS
 

BOOK SALE AND COFFEE
Browse hundreds of quality second-hand books at prices you wouldn’t believe. Organised by Friends of the Museum. 10.00am to 12.30, Pilot Boat Inn, Lyme Regis

St Georges Day Concert by Lyme Regis Town Band Tickets £5 from Uplyme Post Office, Lyme Regis Tourist Information Centre, Primary Colours, any band member or tel 01297 442719.  7.30pm Woodmead Hall

Darts Across the Atlantic -
Competition between Lyme Regis and
and twin town St George's, Bermuda via webcam link The Nags Head Silver Street


AGM Lyme Regis RNLI Guild
7.30pm Lyme Regis Golf Club


Charity Golf Day
in aid of Candles on the Cobb 2012.  Lyme Regis Golf Club

Uplyme Annual Parish Meeting
Uplyme Village Hall 7pm


  LYME REGIS FOSSIL FESTIVAL
Lyme Regis Museum will be open FREE from 10am-5pm each day during Fossil Festival with a busy programme of walks, talks and family activities. Check the museum’s website for full details.
Lyme Regis Museum
 

Play the Big Fossilisation Game
Fossilly version of snakes and ladders on a big scale!
  10am-4pm –
Venue: Marquee FREE

  Paint  your own Fossil Plaster Cast
Make-and-take family fun with Phil Anslow.
11am-3pm – Venue: Lyme Regis Museum – small charge for materials

 ‘Know Your Fossils’ 
Talk by museum expert Chris Andrew – learn all about fossils and how to find them.  Suitable for all ages from 9 years old 7pm –  Venue:Lyme Regis Museum FREE

Family Fossil Walk
Get hands-on for 2½ to 3 hours on the Jurassic Coast with celebrity fossil hunters Paddy Howe and Chris Andrew.  Meet at Lyme Regis Museum 9am – – adults £10/children £5

The Big Fossilisation Game 
10am-4pm – Venue: Marquee FREE

11am-3pm – Paint your own Fossil Plaster Cast  Venue: Lyme Regis Museum – small charge for materials
 

‘Mary Anning’s Discoveries’

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

‘A History of Lyme Regis Museum’

Talk by Max Hebditch – former curator of Lyme Regis Museum. Suitable for age 12 and above. 12noon –

Venue: Lyme Regis Museum FREE
 

 

‘Introducing the Ammonite’

Talk by Stephen Locke on Lyme’s quintessential fossils.  Suitable for age 12 and above.3pm – Venue: Lyme Regis Museum FREE


Legends Return to Lyme Regis:
STACKRIDGE


Wednesday April 24th 2013

Demonstration and talk ‘Hanging Baskets’
by Brian Carlson
Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society 7.30pm Uplyme Village Hall Details 01297 444034
 


   

 

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Dogs on Beaches


Lyme Regis's
front beach:
Dogs are banned from 1st April until 31st October and must be on leads from 1st November to 31st March 

Marine Parade, Cart Road, Gun Cliff Walk, the Harbour and in the seafront GardensDogs need to be on a lead all year. 

Dogs allowed on Monmouth Beach, Cobb Gate and East Beach.

Charmouth Beach: - no dogs from 1st May to 30th September.

Seatown Beach: -no dogs.

Dog waste must be cleared up and disposed of properly and dogs must be under the handler's control at all times. 
Failure to comply may result in a fine or prosecution.

 

Lyme Regis Jazz/Blues and Beer Festival
25th, 26th. 27th May 2012

 

 

Book Now 
Rotary Charity Golf Day


Lyme Regis Golf Club
Tues 8th May 2012

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Exhibitions April 2012
       

 

All local organisations and charities

are invited to have a stall
at the
May Day Fete

Playing Field, Anning Road  May

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

 

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!

 

Wanted

RNLISoft toys/unwanted Birthday/Christmas gifts - pristine condition please - for the Lifeboat Guild's Lifeboat Week Tombola Stall

Please take them to the Lifeboat Shop or Tel 442244

Help wanted during
Lifeboat Week 
Tel 442448 or
click here

 
 

Fossil walks in April

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.


April

            Thursday 5 April 2012 09.30

            Friday 6 April 2012 10.15

            Monday 9 April 2012 12.30

            Tuesday 10 April 2012 13.15

            Wednesday 18 April 2012 09.00

            Thursday 19 April 2012 09.30

            Friday 20 April 2012 10.15

            Saturday 21 April 2012 10.45

            Sunday 22 April 2012 11.15

            Monday 23 April 2012 11.45

            Tuesday 24 April 2012 12.15

            Wednesday 25 April 2012 12.45
 

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

 

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