Budleigh Past and Present

  MPs involved with petitions to protest against development of greenbelt land or housing without appropriate infrastructure. Clive Betts (Labour Sheffield South East)  underlined his opposition to proposals to use land in Eckington Way, near Crystal Peaks, for a travelling showpeople site and industrial uses. ‘I am calling on  Sheffield City Council  to reject this plan and recognise the profound impact this will have on communities in Sheffield South East, not just around Eckington Way but also with the unfair release of Green Belt land.’ Saqib Bhatti (Conservative, Meriden and Solihull East):  Associated with a petition concerning the "grey belt" definition in the National Planning Policy Framework, advocating for better protection of Green Belt land. Sarah Bool (Conservative, South Northamptonshire.) Has actively opposed large warehouse developments, such as the DHL application, which threaten rural areas and green belt-adjacent land in her constituenc...

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It’s not so long ago that the tradition of maypole dancing was revived in East Budleigh. An ancient English tradition which Roger Conant’s family would have enjoyed? Unlikely. In the increasingly puritanical England of the 1640s, maypoles were condemned by the Long Parliament as ‘a Heathenish vanity, generally abused to superstition and wickedness’, and were banned outright, along with Christmas and other ‘ungodly’ practices. Well before then, Roger would have had problems had he tried to introduce it in New England at the settlement of Naumkeag, later to become Salem.  With the arrival of Governor John Endicott and ‘godly’ Puritans in Naumkeag in 1628, such ‘pagan’ practices were viewed with horror.  Shocking news was received by Puritan leaders around that time of May Day events taking place just over 20 miles away from Plymouth Colony, in the settlement once called Merrymount and now known as the town of Quincy. Governor William Bradford in his  History of Pl...

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‘It is usually very difficult to find much to say which will not offend the vigilant eye of the censor,’ wrote Kenneth John Best to his family in May 1915, while serving as an army chaplain during World War I. Even so, he managed to say much about the horrors of war.  In December 1914, while still safe in Egypt and yet to be posted to the front he had expressed his frustration with humanity in a letter to his father. ‘The question always occurs to me, why do men try to reach justice by the sword?’ he asked. ‘Brute force seems to have no connection that I can see with Justice. In this particular case, it may turn out all right – but I hope there will after this be some better means found for settling disputes.’  Later, from the bloodbath of Gallipoli, he wrote: ‘What a mad world this is! I suppose we shall soon come to our senses and settle the matter which might just as well have been settled without the carnage. How much wiser were the Israelites and Philistines when they set...