In a previous blog post, we introduced you to the author John Fowles, and gave you some background on his life, as well as his interest in Lyme Regis and genealogy. — Mary Anning One family missing from the list of Lyme families given in the previous post was the Anning family. The palaeontologist Mary… Read more John Fowles (Part 2)
A newly-published book takes an original look at Chesil Beach. Chesil Beach is unique: a bank of pebbles stretching for sixteen miles along the Dorset coast, from the Isle of Portland to West Bay. It seems a lonely landscape, deserted and unchanging. Yet there have always been people living here, concealed behind the shingle barrier.… Read more Chesil Beach: a peopled solitude
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