From Van. H. Allen.  25th August 1934. Bridport News.

Exciting scenes occurred at a fire when two boys of Lyme Regis had a remarkable escape on Saturday morning. They fled from a tent in which they were sleeping and were barely outside when the whole structure collapsed. The occupants were aroused by the barking of a pet dog  to find their tent a complete mass of flames. They were John Fowler, aged 15, and Charlie Govier, aged 14, whose homes are in Silver Street. They had been camping for several weeks in the Ware Cliffs, about a mile from Lyme Regis. "We turned in about midnight" said Fowler "and went straight off to sleep. I was frightened when Govier awakened me to see flames all around. My pillow was alight and I lost a good deal of my hair" he added. Govier related how he heard the Dog "Pat" barking furiously. This awakened Him and he found the tent well ablaze. "I managed to arouse Tom" he said "and we got out under the tent just in time". "Fowler rushed back in and saved his dog which was tied to the tent pole, But we lost a lot of our clothing" he concluded. Another tent nearby was caught in the flames and burnt to the ground. The usual occupier of this tent remained at home that night.
A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Charlie Chaplin’s flying visit to Lyme Regis is the kind of story seaside nostalgia is made of – unfolding on the steps of a long-vanished seafront hotel.The long gone Alcove Hotel on Marine Parade occupied a building dating from the early 19th century. It was originally a two-story cottage; the third storey was added when the place became a hotel.On April 21 1953, the world’s most famous silent film star and his wife Oona were heading west in their Rolls-Royce when they decided, quite casually, to “look in” at Lyme Regis for afternoon tea.They chose the Alcove Hotel on Marine Parade, a spot that once looked out over the curve of Lyme Bay, and in doing so gifted the town a brush with glamour that locals would still be talking about decades later.​
A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis railway station was a 6-mile branch line terminal that operated from 1903 to 1965, connecting the town to the main line at Axminster. Known for its steep, sharply curved route, the rural line featured a single wooden platform, a signal box. It closed in November 1965, with the original building later relocated to the Watercress Line. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed over six weeks in summer 1980 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Mrs. Ann Petit, Coombe Street in 1936 and Frank Wiscombe. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

Jack Tracey, Florrie Legg, Ruby Ebdon, Jack Rogers (Manager), Ivan Long, Eglow, Edgar Harris and Fry outside the Star Supply Stores, Lyme Regis in 1931 in Broad Street. Star Supply Stores (originally the Star Tea Company) was a major British grocery chain with over 300 locations by the 1920s.
Corporate Transition: In 1929, the company was acquired by the International Tea Co. Stores. Despite the takeover, many branches continued to trade under the Star Supply Stores name or brand identity through the early 1930s before eventually being rebranded as International Stores.
A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

Tea Room, Cinema Tea Lounge.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

The Old Assembly Rooms.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

The Victoria Hall in Lyme Regis was a 19th-century assembly venue added to the town's Assembly Rooms in 1866, serving as a social hub on the Marine Parade. Often criticized as a "yellow brick" annex, it was demolished in 1928 following a 1927 storm that deemed it unsafe, with the site becoming a car park.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

Lyme Regis Carnival in 1923. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

Handing over the first Ambulance for Lyme Regis with Walter Abbott, Town Crier. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Handing over the first Ambulance for Lyme Regis with Walter Abbott, Town Crier. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Civic Meeting with the crew of the Minesweeper HMS Lyme Regis in 1943.
A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Charles Chipperfield, Sheila Appleby, Dennis Appleby (Mayor) and Mary Chipperfield at the London Inn in 1981. Lyme Regis.
A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

Lyme Regis Conservative Club February 3rd 1913 Luncheon. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

In June 1890, Lyme Regis experienced a significant flash flood caused by heavy rainfall that swelled the River Lym (also known as the Lim). This event is historically noted as one of the most dramatic and costly floods in the town's history. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

On 18th March 1926, the foundation stone for the Church Hall  in Lyme Regis was laid. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

 A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

 A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

 A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

 A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

 A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection

Jim Homyer. A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.

A photograph of Lyme Regis from the Keith Wiscombe Collection.