Lyme Folk Weekend
Friday, August 30 to Sunday September 1st 2019
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th
Lyme Regis Food Rocks Festival 2019
Mark
Hix’s Food Rocks returns for its 8th year! Expect all things food
and drink from Dorset and surrounding areas.
The festival started
as a vision of Mark Hix with the aim of promoting the produce of his hometown
of Lyme Regis and the surrounding areas, by presenting some of the best food,
producers and suppliers that Dorset and the South West has to offer.
The festival not only raises money to support local charities, but also aims
to give something back to the local community. Food Rocks is a fun-filled
weekend bursting with live, interactive cookery demonstrations from top chefs,
talks and tastings from local producers, and a wide range of seasonal food and
drink exhibitors to purchase from. There will also be kid’s activities so
there is something to suit everyone!
The festival brings together top chefs, exhibitors, locals and
those who are visiting Lyme Regis. The main stage will showcase a diverse mix
of interactive cookery demonstrations, talks and tastings across the weekend.
In addition to this, all money raised is donated to the RNLI and the
Fishermen’s Mission. 10:00- 16:00
Marine Parade & the Cart Road
Sunday 8th
Lyme Splash
Lyme Regis to Charmouth Sea Swim Challenge
Wednesday September 11th 2019
Coach Trip to The Lost Gardens of Heligan
200
acres of Victorian gardens and pleasure grounds were rediscovered 30 years
ago. The Lost Gardens include aged and colossal rhododendrons and camellias, a
series of lakes fed by a ram pump over 100 years old, highly productive flower
and vegetable gardens, an Italian garden, and a wild area filled with
subtropical tree ferns called “The Jungle”. The gardens also have Europe’s
only remaining pineapple pit, warmed by rotting manure, and two figures made
from rocks and plants known as the Mud Maid and the Giant’s Head Restaurant.
Cost of £25 includes guided tour. Guests welcome at an additional cost of £3.
Coach departs Uplyme Village Hall at 7.45am. Please ring Annie Kobus
01297 443346 to book.
Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society
Monday 23rd Autumnal Equinox: The Autumn Equinox is the first day of the autumn season and occurs
when the sun passes the equator moving from the northern to the southern hemisphere. The sun is directly overhead at the equator and day
and night are of approximately equal lengths. At equinox, the Sun rises everywhere on Earth (except the Poles) at about 6am in the morning and sets at about 6pm in the evening (though this can vary a little when time zones and daylight saving etc are taken into account).
Wednesday September 25th 2019
‘The Living Jigsaw Explained’ – the nitty gritty of eco-friendly gardening by
Val Bourne
Val
Bourne is a celebrated garden writer, photographer and lecturer. She manages
her third of an acre garden without using any chemicals at all and will share
her eco-friendly hints and tips in this talk. Her newest book, ‘The Living
Jigsaw’ published by Kew, explains how it all works. Val has won
multiple awards including Journalist of the Year from the Garden Media Guild
and is a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph, among others.
She gardens on the wind-swept Cotswolds at Spring Cottage – high above Bourton-on-the-Water
in Gloucestershire. Val is a hands-on gardener and a committed plantaholic and
is an Ambassador for the Hardy Plant Society.
Everyone is welcome. Talk starts at 7.30pm at Uplyme Village Hall.
Refreshments are available from 7.15pm. Members free; non-members £3.
Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society
PLASTIC
FREE LYME REGIS
Turn Lyme Green
Meeting Grenville Barr, Chair of the Steering Group, will give an update
on the campaign and lead a discussion on future plans. Bring your ideas and
comments. 7.15 for 7.30pm Royal Lion Hotel, Lyme Regis, Blue Room
Everyone Welcome For more information 01297 446066
enquiries@turnlymegreen.co.uk
www.turnlymegreen.co.uk
Public
Open Days at the historic property Belmont on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9
September 2018.
Belmont,
Lyme Regis, Open Day
This fine 18th-century maritime
villa in Lyme Regis is listed Grade II* and once belonged to the remarkable
businesswoman, Mrs Eleanor Coade who devised a formula to mass produce
architectural embellishments. More recently Belmont was
home to world-famous author, John Fowles, author of The Magus and The French
Lieutenant's Woman. We have restored Belmont to its
appearance in Mrs Coade’s day. Here you can sit – and indeed write – in John
Fowles’s former writing room with its wide views of sea and sky. In the garden
there is a Victorian observatory tower, with hatch and revolving roof. Most of
the long garden is left wild (Fowles was a keen naturalist) and it tumbles
down to the esplanade, with a pebble beach and the Cobb beyond. Free
Admission and leaflets on the building's history.
10am to 4pm Pound Street, Lyme Regis
Love Lyme’s Beaches Beach Clean
Meeting at the usual place
(Outside the RNLI shop) we will be cleaning Monmouth beach. 11:30 am – 12:30
pm – briefing at 11:15 am.
Lyme
Lunches
Nutritious, good value lunch, aimed at over 50's. 2 courses plus tea or coffee
£6 The Pine Hall, Baptist Church, Broad Street. 2nd Wednesday of month.
Organised by Lyme Forward. Bookings: Penny Black café (behind the Post
Office)
A rare opportunity to visit Lyme's cemetery chapel.
Lyme Regis is supporting Dorset Architectural Week by opening the very
highly decorated Victorian Church of England chapel built
in 1856 and not normally open to the public. It is still used occasionally
by local families for funeral services and contains a fine example of a
Victorian bier. The chapel will
be open from 10am to 4pm.
There is also the opportunity to visit the nearby grave of the crew of HMS Formidable, lost in
1915.
Coffee Morning in aid of Lyme Regis Christmas Lights. Cake
Stall, Bric-a-brac & Raffle at The Driftwood, Baptist Church 10.00am – 12 Noon
Meet and Remember - A memory café for
Lyme Regis, Uplyme and Charmouth Supportive, friendly environment for
those experiencing memory loss or who have recently been diagnosed with
dementia and the friends/relatives/carers who support them. 2 - 3.30pm
Lyme Regis Football Club Pavilion 3rd Wednesday of the month, contact
07704902604 lymememory@gmail.com
or just come along. LymeForward
Soup & Sweet Lunch
Cancer Research UK Lyme Regis are offering a choice of two warming soups
(chicken and vegetable) and delicious sweets. 12 noon to 2 pm.
Tickets on the door £8 at the Woodmead Halls Please support this event
and help us to pass the £150,000 already raised by our branch since we formed
in 2008.
NEW LOOK AUTUMN SHOW &
HARVEST SUPPER – bring and share.
Look
out for the schedule and bring your best produce along, then vote for the
exhibits you like most – this is an informal and friendly show, followed by a
Bring and Share Supper.
7.30pm Uplyme Village Hall
Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society
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. 
Tues and Thurs 7.30 pm May – September 
Meet at 
the houses in which Jane is said to have stayed
and hear stories of Lyme Regis as she would have known it. See where Louisa Musgrove fell on the Cobb.'
