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Tour of the Museum
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Tour of the Museum
First Room, Ground Floor
Second Room, Ground Floor
Stairwell
First Floor Landing
Geology Gallery
Landslip and Literary Galleries
Second Floor
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First Room, Ground Floor

View of the Tudor table which dates from around 1550 and wooden tracery from the 14th century chapel formerly on the nearby Buddle BridgeThe first room on the ground floor tells the story of Early Lyme Regis, with objects from the Bronze Age, Roman and Medieval times. There are displays on the Monmouth Rebellion and the Siege of Lyme and a model of the early, wooden Cobb. A superb carved bedhead from the bed slept in by the Duke of Monmouth is on the wall in this room.

 The head of the bed that the Duke of Monmouth slept in when he landed at Lyme on June 11th 1685