COLLECTIONS & RESEARCH

Local History

  • Plate II. Ground plan and sections of the great landslip ar Great and Little Bindon and Dowlands in the parish of Axmouth on the east coast of Devon

    The Bindon Landslip of 1839

    In 1840 Lyme geologists Rev William Conybeare and Dr William Buckland produced the first fully scientific report ever produced about a major landslip – the Bindon Landslip of 1839.

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  • Thomas Coram

    Thomas Coram

    Thomas Coram, Philanthropist
    Founder of the Foundlings Hospital

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