File:Lyme Regis, including the fossil shop, c. 1844.jpg

Description: Broad Street, Lyme Regis, 1843–1844, [1] showing Mary Anning's fossil shop, the third building from the right, on the corner: the thin three-story house with the single attic window. This is an image of the fossil shop, known an Anning's Fossil Depot, while she still owned it. Other images identify it as Bridge Street. [2]

Source: W.D. Lang Collection, courtesy of the Dorset Coast Digital Archive [3]

Author: Unknown

See below.

One of the images [8] shows the same shop owned by Eli Dollin, and indeed he is mentioned in Thomas Goodhue's Fossil Hunter: The Life and Times of Mary Anning (2004), p. 112. Or does the image say J Dollin?

Eli Dollin and his wife Harriet (died 1892) apparently owned it at some point. It's not clear whether this was Anning's store before them.

Richard Anning also owned a shop or workshop on Bridge Street. See Jocelyn Harris A revolution almost beyond expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion, p. 234. Jane Austen mentions him in a letter of September 14, 1804 (Letters, 94). But after he died the family moved to a new home and fossil store on Broad Street in 1826. So which is the old store, and which the new one, and what is the relationship to the Dollins's store? SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 22:23, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Two things to keep in mind. One was that Mary Anning had combination homes/shops, one at the home where she was born (which eventually became the site of the Philpot Museum, now called the Lyme museum, and one that she moved to in 1826. The second is that second location continued to operate on the name "Anning's fossil shop" under different owners for decades after her death. These facts may resolve some of the confusion. Rusty Cashman (talk) 18:46, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Her first home was somewhere else, where the museum now is. So the question remains whether the fossil store in this image was hers, the one she moved to in 1826. And is it Bridge Street or Broad Street? SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 22:23, 27 September 2010 (UTC)