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‘Wildlife photography and illustrations’

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The Otter Valley Association and Fairlynch Museum are jointly presenting talks on Saturday 7 February in Budleigh Salterton’s Peter Hall by two distinguished experts who are noted for their stunning images of wildlife. Photographer David Spears' talk is entitled 'Tiny Lives in Rivers and Estuaries.' David filmed with David Bellamy and David Attenborough on a number of projects before later setting up his own production company, Science Pictures.     He uses various imaging tools including high-powered electron microscopes to illustrate the range of organisms that he finds interesting.  Two of his pictures are shown here. He will include brief descriptions of the methodology he uses, but more importantly, show images of organisms which form critical stages in the food chain that sustains the larger and more accessible and familiar animals living in the Otter. Mike Langman, a full-time wildlife illustrator with a passion for birds will presen...

Lower Otter Valley Local Heritage Assets Listing Project

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From the Otter Valley Association has come an important announcement about a venture in which Fairlynch Museum has a role: The OVA is embarking on an exciting new project, looking at our rich and diverse local heritage, and is seeking partners and volunteers to help with this work.   The project was launched during Heritage Open Days (11 to 14 September 2014). Watch out for further details about   local events that we will be holding, and visit the Heritage Open Days website if you are interested in local heritage events. We are working in partnership with Devon’s Historic Environment Team, East Devon District Council, the Fairlynch Museum and the Town and Parish Councils to identify and list heritage assets in the Lower Otter Valley.   This area covers Budleigh Salterton, and the parishes of East Budleigh, Otterton, Colaton Raleigh and Newton Poppleford. The reason for listing heritage assets is because they are buildings, monuments, sites, pla...

Meg Peacocke — ‘Budleigh Salterton in the War Years: a Child’s View’

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  Meg Peacocke, a poet with wartime memories of Budleigh Fairlynch Museum and the Otter Valley Association are combining to present a talk on 13 October which will give a special insight into life in Budleigh Salterton during the Second World War.   A sister of the composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Meg Peacocke is a distinguished poet who was brought up in Budleigh Salterton in the 1940s.   A World War Two recruitment poster Image © IWM Local artist Joyce Dennys had suggested that the family move from the London area to Budleigh to escape the danger of Nazi bombing raids, and Meg’s father, the children’s author Rodney Bennett, served as a warden at the ARP hut on The Green.     Meg Peacocke’s poem ‘Walking to Church 1940’ is one of several compositions which give a flavour of wartime life, describing how the Bennett family made its way to Sunday servic...

Budleigh’s local historians

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The Feathers Hotel on Budleigh Salterton's High Street Fairlynch Museum ’s Local History Room is a favourite with our many visitors to Budleigh because of the enormous amount of information carefully gathered over the years by the Museum’s researchers.   Details about local families, planning applications, the history of Budleigh’s schools, the railway... you can spend hours absorbed in learning fascinating facts about the town’s sewerage systems or the local gasworks. There are of course plenty of local historians working outside the Museum. The Otter Valley Association reports that its OVApedia History section continues to grow, with 150 articles now published online.   At http://www.ovapedia.org.uk/index.php?page=James-Wheaton-born-1808-and-his-two-wives---one-in-Newton-Poppleford-and-one-in-Australia-C19 you can find out about the Newton Poppleford man with two wives. Or, less sensationally in the OVApedia files, about the beekeeping former r...