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Description: | This collection covers local history, trade and industry. It includes architectal material ranging from 14th century oak tracery through Coadestone (an early form of artificial stone), to a name plate used in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman, based on a novel by Lyme author John Fowles.
There are household and personal possessions including William Buckland's coprolite table and a 16th century rent table; a diary by Edward Drake and artefacts from the seige of Lyme during the Civil War in 1644; town weights and measures; photographs and artefacts from HMS Formidable, torpedoed in Lyme Bay in 1915; Second World War memorabilia; and textiles, lace and costume.
There is a model of the Snap, built in 1812, and the only Lyme-built ship to serve in the Royal Navy. | Subjects: | Social History | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Bridge Street
Lyme Regis,
DT7 3QA | Telephone: | 01297 443 370 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:3257 | Go to resource |
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