Fit faces: Arthur Gascoyne Robson
The recent visit to Fairlynch by children from St Peter’s School seeking to know more about the Second World War made me wonder exactly how much memorabilia of the period the Museum has managed to gather. We are most grateful to the benefactor who recently enabled Fairlynch to acquire the copy of the ship's badge that I mentioned he re. So when Budleigh resident Shirley Williams, pictured above, called at the Local History Room to seek out a folder mentioning her grandfather it was a pleasure to find almost immediately the exact page on which he is pictured. The Museum always welcomes any help in identifying people in photographs from the past for whom we lack names. So we now have two names of people in the group of staff from the Beaufoy Institute which was evacuated from Black Prince Road in the London Borough of Lambeth to Budleigh during World War Two. Shirley’s grandfather, Arthur G...