Archive for December 2004

25 Years since Meryl

Dec 15th, 2004 | By | Category: Personal Columns

It’s a quarter of a century in 2005 since 1980 when John Fowles’ novel ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ became a film starring Meryl Streep, putting the Cobb at Lyme Regis onto cinema screens around the world.

I was eight in 1969 when I first remember going to Lyme Regis. It was a wet day in August, (there seem to have been a lot of wet days in my memory), an uncle and aunt took me out for the day. Wrapped up against the wind and the rain we walked the …