Much-loved local press photographer Harry Green captured these glorious images of Lyme Regis in a bygone era.

Harry was a popular face in Dorset, who would often be first on the scene to breaking news.

He had a way of capturing the steady pace of life in the county as it once was and would photograph a wide range of goings on in west Dorset, Weymouth and elsewhere in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

This picture of Lyme shows the popular west Dorset resort in the 1960s and, judging by the photo, Bridge Street was significantly quieter back then!

You can see a Triumph Herald car in the middle of the three cars parked on the left hand side of the road.

It's thought that the other two cars are a Ford Anglia and an MG Magnette.

The motorbike in the photo in the foreground is thought to have British plates, from Devon or Exeter and, unusually, an exhaust pipe on the left.

"It looks like a Villiers engine," one reader thought.

Also in the photo we can see the Volunteer Arms, the town's Post Office and a very cute little bonnet-wearing cherub being pushed in a buggy on the pavement on the right.


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If you have any old photos of Lyme Regis, we would love to see them here at the Bridport News. You can email them to Joanna O'Donnell here.

Lyme Regis from the air Lyme Regis from the air (Image: NQ) This second picture taken by Harry shows the resort from the air.

You can see the Cobb stretching out into the sea and the architectural splendour of Lyme from afar.

The resort has a large number of good quality historic buildings, mainly late Georgian and early Victorian, that date from the period of the town's revival as a seaside resort.


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The steep narrow streets of Lyme reflect its long history and the Georgian architecture is contemporary with its prosperity in the 18th century when sea bathing became fashionable.

It has a good range of town houses, suburban houses, sea resort villas, and workers' cottages.

As an Echo staff photographer, Harry was occasionally able to cadge a lift in one of the Royal Navy helicopters from the RN Air Station on Portland when they were going on exercise to somewhere that he wanted to get some pictures. It would appear that was how he captured this image.