Fairlynch Museum has dresses to thrill
I've been so preoccupied by the life and career of Surgeon Commander Murray Levick, the subject of Fairlynch's current main exhibition, that I was in danger of neglecting other areas where volunteers at Budleigh Salterton's Museum had been hard at work with their own display areas. That was until I suddenly dreamt up that silly headline for my post at http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.com/2011/04/museum-shows-off-full-monty-and-much.html And then I began to think about how Fairlynch Museum began, and how one of its chief glories is its costume collection. The Museum holds approximately 4,000 items of men's, women's and children's clothing as a result of donations made over the years. Some are rare pieces dating as far back as the early 1700s. The collection originated as an assortment of period costumes and 'fripperies' gathered by Budleigh Salterton residents, the sisters Joy, Elizabet...