Re-visiting Persuasion on the Cobb!

It really was a flying visit, but I’ve just spent a lovely weekend down in Lyme. I’ve taken lots of photos which I shall soon be posting, but here are a few which I’m sure you’ll find very amusing – I said I might be blown off the Cobb – it was very windy, and [...]

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Milsom Street, Bath

I had a lovely weekend in Bath and I took some photos to show you if you are not familiar with the lovely town. The first shows the view down Milsom Street looking down towards the famous pump rooms. The second shows the remnants of a sign above what was the circulating library, which I’m [...]

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Jane Austen at the seaside

Summer is almost upon us though perhaps you wouldn’t know it by the rainy weather at present! Regency seaside resorts became very popular in the late 1700′s/ early 1800′s. Jane Austen loved Lyme Regis and even used the town in her book Persuasion. Here are a couple of extracts from a letter she sent to [...]

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Jane Austen at the seaside

Summer is almost upon us though perhaps you wouldn’t know it by the rainy weather at present! Regency seaside resorts became very popular in the late 1700′s/ early 1800′s. Jane Austen loved Lyme Regis and even used the town in her book Persuasion. Here are a couple of extracts from a letter she sent to [...]

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