A Year in Lyme Regis

Plans to Protect East of Lyme Regis go on Show
The full scheme for the East of the Town will cost between £15 and £20 million. The WDDC Scheme would aim to protect 170 properties and services in the East Cliff and Church Cliff area of Lyme....
Proposed works affect three main areas:
1. The Foreshore
2. Lower Coastal Slopes
3. Middle Slopes including Charmouth Road Car Park, the Football Club and the Town Allotments.
An Exhibition showing the plans was shown in The Marine Theatre on Monday 11th & Tuesday 12th February 2008.
For the latest news on the scheme, please click on the link below.....

New Coastal Protection Scheme..East Lyme Regis

A Member of the Tolkien Society has set up an internet campaign to save the Three Cups Hotel in Lyme Regis - once a favourite holiday destination of the Hobbit author, JRR Tolkien.

Andrew Townsend from Manchester has created a `blog spot' on the web at www.savethe3cups.info where anyone concerned about the future of the derelict listed building can post their views.

Tolkien fan Mr Townsend visited Lyme Regis recently and was horrified by the extended closure of the hotel where Tolkien holidayed as a child and then later with his own family. In August 1906 a 14yearold Tolkien painted a picture entitled `Lyme Regis Harbour from the Drawing Room Window of the Cups Hotel'.

Andrew Townsend said: "I went to look at the Three Cups Hotel because I had read that Tolkien stayed there several times. "I was sad to find that it is now empty. I would really like to see the building returned to its traditional use as a hotel so that anyone could visit it and take in the atmosphere and history of the place."

For the most complete listing of all events for 2008, we suggest you go to:

The New 2008 Events List.

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