COLLECTIONS & RESEARCH
Local History
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Sea and the Cobb
The fortunes of the small coastal town of Lyme Regis have always been closely bound up with the sea. For seven centuries trade has flourished and faded through its port, protected by the great wall of the Cobb. Fishing, smuggling, storms and shipwrecks have left their relics. For the past two hundred years the town has earned its living as a tourist resort,and is now part of the Jurassic Coast Word Heritage Site.
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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, Philanthropist
Founder of the Foundlings Hospital