08 January 2021

Somers Day Celebrations and Parade - 21 July

Somers Day Celebrations and Parade - 21 July

Lyme Regis celebrates its historic friendship with twin town St George's, Bermuda with the annual Somers Day Parade.

Twinners from St George's travel to Lyme Regis for the parade, which makes its way down Broad Street, along the seafront, ending at the Cobb for a short ceremony.

The parade commemorates Admiral Sir George Somers, a former Mayor of Lyme Regis and MP, who founded the islands of Bermuda in the name of King James VI in 1609, after being shipwrecked en route to help the beleaguered settlers of new English colony, Jamestown, in Virginia.

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