Budleigh Past and Present

  Nigel Tucker, with some of the coins from his collection I was saddened to hear recently of the death of Nigel Tucker, founding member of the Woodbury History Society, who helped to make the 2018 exhibition at Budleigh’s Fairlynch Museum such a success.     Putting together a museum exhibition can be incredibly time-consuming, especially if you decide to borrow items from places which insist on the payment of high insurance premiums and the completion of detailed questionnaires to satisfy the bureaucrats and pay the lawyers.     So when the Raleigh 400 exhibition at Fairlynch Museum was staged to honour Sir Walter in the 400 th anniversary year of his death, the generosity of kind friends and neighbours in providing items for display was much appreciated.   Coins of the period were especially interesting. Not only had they been lent thanks to a kind friend of the Museum but they were genuinely local. Maybe Sir Walter himself may have dropped th...