Budleigh Past and Present

Photo by Lynne Lovatt‎, Christmas Eve 2011  from the Rolle flats in Budleigh  and posted in Facebook's Budleigh - Past and Present Well, the sun has risen on a new year and it’s time for a change! I’ve been in the habit of emailing lists of news items and features of local interest on a regular basis. The Raleigh 400 blog has done its work to mark the 400 th anniversary of the Great Devonian’s death and has closed - though I'm likely to tinker with it from time to time!   You can view it at leisure by clicking on  http://raleigh400.blogspot.com Budleigh Salterton, William Payne, 1790    Devon Archives.  Posted on Budleigh - Past and Present by  Yannick 'MrMunro' Munro‎ Budleigh and Brewster United has come back to life, and I'll be contributing to that, together with the new Facebook group Budleigh – Past and Present. Details about that and how to join are at the end of this post. Budleigh – Pa...

New arrival on the cultural attractions scene: the Heymuseums logo Volunteers at Fairlynch  are cheering at the news that their museum has been judged one of the most popular in the region according to a specialist website. Heymuseums places the Budleigh Salterton museum, located in a listed 19 th century thatched building described as a “marine cottage orn é ” on the town’s Fore Street, as one of the leading attractions of its type in East Devon.  The website, which calls itself the United Kingdom´s most updated site for finding museums and art galleries, puts Fairlynch near the top of its list for the area, second only to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery. It currently boasts of guiding online visitors to   5,898 museums  in the UK.   Facebook logo. For Heymuseums, Facebook plays a key part in listing a museum’s popularity The site’s popularity-rank...

Image credit:  Bodo Akdeniz Spam is a pain. For several years I’ve been emailing recipients of my blog news about Budleigh Salterton and Fairlynch Museum, keeping them up to date with the latest news, views and oddities that many of us find interesting or entertaining.  Recently 100 of my readers didn’t receive a message from me, probably because of anti-spam paranoia on the part of the cyberlords. All my blog posts appear in a shortened version on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Fairlynch and Twitter with a link to the full post complete with more pics. If you haven’t heard from me for some time, and if you want to keep in touch with Budleigh news, please do look at the Fairlynch Facebook community page. You don’t have to join Facebook to do so. Of course you may decide to take the plunge and join the billions who use it. In which case it would be lovely if you could LIKE the Fairlynch page. When I first moved to Budleigh seven years ago I menti...

  Dartmouth Museum : top tweeters "We're very worthy," says Tim Trent, volunteer at Dartmouth Museum and Devon tweeter extraordinaire. "We're a quite ordinary museum - only three rooms plus a lobby. We've been tweeting only since July last year, but for such a tiny museum we punch well above our weight in social media." Well, when they can boast of sending out 3,569 tweets - it works out at a daily average of 15-20 tweets - it's perhaps why Dartmouth Museum has 706 followers on Twitter, and growing by the minute.   The Royal Albert Memorial Museum 's current 3,015 tweet total looks measly by comparison. "The extraordinary thing now is that we're attracting attention from a lot of heavyweights in the social media scene. It's mad really. But it's getting our museum talked about."   And Dartmouth Museum was even nominated for a couple of social media awards. They didn't win, but they never expe...

Yes, we've joined the select group of Devon museums who are using social media to spread the word about why they're worth a visit. Not just Twitter, but also Facebook. It all started when the Museum's press officer Michael Downes learned how such things can help somewhere like Fairlynch when last Friday he attended an excellent training session given by Andy Chapman from internet consultancy 1010 Media http://www.1010media.co.uk/ 1010 Media, with bases in London and Exeter, has worked with a large range of businesses and organisations including Devon Museums and Exeter Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Commenting on Friday's training session, Andy said:   "There was lots to cram into a short space of time, and, due to the structure being very 'off the cuff' because of each museum's differing situation, it was slightly tricky to prepare for!" The session also included topics such as domain names for museums, email, Flikr...