“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
So
wrote the narrator of L.P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between.
But Fairlynch Museum
Fairlynch
Chairman Roger Sherriff is in discussion with Mark McGlade, chief co-ordinator
of the Budleigh Salterton Memory Book to see how the Museum can work with
groups like St Peter’s C of E Primary School, Age Concern and Budleigh in
Business in recording reminiscences of the past. The aim, say the Memory Book
team, is to share the memories and fascinating stories of the people who live
in and around the town with friends, neighbours, children, grandchildren and
future generations to come.
With
an ageing population, Budleigh Salterton is blessed with having a wealth of
historical memories from a broad section of interesting people with first
hand-hand knowledge and life experiences of those who have lived through the
Second World War or life in the Raj and our colonial Empire. Budleigh Salterton
and surrounding area is home to former fighter pilots, war heroes, prisoners of
war, evacuees, acclaimed scientists and academics, explorers, authors, poets,
farmers, fishermen, school teachers and retired TV and film personalities and
every one of them has a story to tell and perhaps help inspire a new generation
to see our history and older generation in a new light.
The
project is still in its early stages of development and will be launched from
Monday 11 Nov 2013, Remembrance Day with an event at St Peter's Primary School
in Moor Lane
For
more information about the project, click on www.budleighmemorybook.org.uk
The above photo shows well known fisherman of the past Ron Pearcey (standing) with mackerel caught with a seine net. The seine net is a long flat net used like a fence to encircle a school of fish
Help please! My father was evacuated, with his brother, to Budleigh Salterton in WW2. He is 80 in February 2014 and is dream is to visit the town to see the place to where he was evacuated. He has golden memories of the place. Stayed in two houses, one close to the railway station but, of course, he doesn't remember names too well. It was close to a church and a bank and a chemist shop. Can anybody help us please because we want to make his dream come true...his loving wife and daughters...thanks
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Sorry for delay Michael. Appreciate your response. His name is Royston Harry Williams. He was with Mrs E M Daniel for the majority of time, with his brother Dennis in Knowle Road, we think. He was in Budleigh from 1940 until bombs fell in town in 1944. Thanks Beverley, Paphos, Cyprus
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