AROUND THE TOWN AND OVER THE POND - 03: ‘OF BIKES, POTATOES, PIPES, PAINTINGS AND OTHER MYTHS’
Continued from https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/05/around-town-and-over-pond-02-boyhood-of.html AROUND THE TOWN AND OVER THE POND A walk around Budleigh Salterton to interest transatlantic visitors. Every so often there’s a diversion which may inspire you to visit places like East Budleigh, Exeter, Sidmouth, Colyton or even places in the United States and Canada. The walk is set out in parts. Here’s the third part: At the Raleigh Wall. 0.3 ‘ OF BIKES, POTATOES, PIPES, PAINTINGS AND OTHER MYTHS' Image credit: Wikipedia Think of Raleigh and many British people today would think not of Sir John Everett Millais and his dream of Sir Walter’s boyhood but of bikes. The Raleigh bike company was actually named after Raleigh Street in Nottingham. It was founded in 1885 by a Briton, Richard Morris Woodhead, and – of all things – a Frenchman called Paul Eugene Louis Angois. And before you ask, ye...