Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from  https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/02/stories-from-southlands-hotel-by-iris.html This is the final part of our story about the largely unknown second link between the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite artist and Budleigh Salterton.   Edie Ramage and Millais’ painting ‘Cherry Ripe’  Image credit: Wikipedia As for ‘Cherry Ripe’ herself, Edie Ramage enjoyed a certain fame. A photograph of her as 'Miss Edith Ramage, the Original of the "Cherry Ripe" of Sir John Millais PRA', was published in The Sketch of 22 April 1896. That year, aged 22 and living in Richmond, Surrey, she married a Spaniard, Francisco de Paulo Ossorio Cembrano and gave birth to a daughter, Maria Edith.   Thirteen years older than her, Francisco died in Italy in 1912, and Edith became a widow.    Wealthy art collector Sir Joseph Robinson, who acquired ‘Cherry Ripe’ in 1898, and his London home at 100 Park Lane. Image credit: Wikipedia. The house is still a private h...

      Pictured above is Budleigh resident Iris Ansell next to a celebrated painting by Sir John Everett Millais. As a volunteer at Fairlynch Museum Iris looked after the Costume Department. In this article she recalls more memorable moments from her time as proprietor of Southlands Hotel in Budleigh Salterton. The article is the seventh in a series of her recollections   Image credit: 'Cherry Ripe' Wikipedia  Most local people know that Sir John Everett Millais came to Budleigh in 1870 to paint ‘The Boyhood of Raleigh’. Here Iris writes of the extraordinary and largely unknown story of a second link between Budleigh and the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite artist. I have mixed my own thoughts and research with Iris’s story.   Iris’ previous story ‘The Wrong Emmanuel’ was told  here       Top: Southlands Hotel on Budleigh's Marine Parade was replaced by Marine Court's apartments But here’s her latest story to appear on ‘Budlei...

  Nigel Tucker, with some of the coins from his collection I was saddened to hear recently of the death of Nigel Tucker, founding member of the Woodbury History Society, who helped to make the 2018 exhibition at Budleigh’s Fairlynch Museum such a success.     Putting together a museum exhibition can be incredibly time-consuming, especially if you decide to borrow items from places which insist on the payment of high insurance premiums and the completion of detailed questionnaires to satisfy the bureaucrats and pay the lawyers.     So when the Raleigh 400 exhibition at Fairlynch Museum was staged to honour Sir Walter in the 400 th anniversary year of his death, the generosity of kind friends and neighbours in providing items for display was much appreciated.   Coins of the period were especially interesting. Not only had they been lent thanks to a kind friend of the Museum but they were genuinely local. Maybe Sir Walter himself may have dropped th...

Continued from 29 January 1944 – ‘A very gallant old soldier’:   SERGEANT DANIEL GEORGE DICKS (1910-44)   https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/02/ww2-75-29-january-1944-very-gallant-old.html     Allan is the only Australian serviceman in a military grave at St Peter’s Burial Ground in Budleigh Salterton.   Budleigh Salterton War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill His name is listed on the War Memorial because his wife came from a well known local family.   Allan’s grave in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane, Budleigh Salterton The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) record tells that he was the son of Horace Edward Dearlove Davey (1887-1978) and his wife Floradora Stephen Mechen Davey (d.1993), and they probably provided the personal inscription, part of which I’ve used to introduce this post: ‘Loved and remembered fondly by his family in Adelaide South Australia. He died that others might hav...