Budleigh Past and Present

Above: Cllr Tom Wright, Mayor Budleigh Salterton, congratulates 'Sir Walter Raleigh' and the Fairlynch Fancies on winning 1st prize in their category As you know Budleigh Carnival is happening on the evening of Saturday 28 September. Fairlynch Museum’s costumed group The Fairlynch Fancies, flushed with their success in winning 1 st prize among the walking groups in the 2018 Carnival, is entering again with the title ‘Devon Explorers’. Now that ties in nicely with the Museum’s current exhibition, called ‘Devon’s New World Explorers’. In case you haven’t seen it, the displays focus on people like Sir Walter Raleigh, his half-brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Francis Drake. The Golden Age of Queen Elizabeth I was a celebrated period for exploration. View towards Sharpitor & Leather Tor down the valley of the river Meavy.  Photo credit: Herby Of course Devon has been the home of many other explorers from other, more r

A much-loved Shakespeare play performed in a Budleigh garden at the home of   Fairlynch Museum’s co-founder Joy Gawne by a troupe of enthusiastic local actors… What more would you want for a Saturday summer evening’s entertainment?   Exeter & Countess Wear Community Theatre will stage an outdoor performance of The Tempest in the garden of Cramalt Lodge at 2 Cricketfield Lane. Members of the cast are featured on this poster. Director Jill Coram says, ‘I am particularly looking forward to directing this play with its so many facets, including betrayal, colonisation, slavery, murderous plotting and magic. Then there is of course the shipwreck and was it the shipwreck which started off a course of events which affected all the characters you will see in the play. Come along and judge for yourself!’ Jill explained that the location was suggested by Joy Gawne’s niece. ‘Once I viewed it, I felt it was perfect and lent itself beautifully to “The Tempest”.’ Known

Photo by Lynne Lovatt‎, Christmas Eve 2011  from the Rolle flats in Budleigh  and posted in Facebook's Budleigh - Past and Present Well, the sun has risen on a new year and it’s time for a change! I’ve been in the habit of emailing lists of news items and features of local interest on a regular basis. The Raleigh 400 blog has done its work to mark the 400 th anniversary of the Great Devonian’s death and has closed - though I'm likely to tinker with it from time to time!   You can view it at leisure by clicking on  http://raleigh400.blogspot.com Budleigh Salterton, William Payne, 1790    Devon Archives.  Posted on Budleigh - Past and Present by  Yannick 'MrMunro' Munro‎ Budleigh and Brewster United has come back to life, and I'll be contributing to that, together with the new Facebook group Budleigh – Past and Present. Details about that and how to join are at the end of this post. Budleigh – Past and Present has attra