AROUND THE TOWN AND OVER THE POND - 14. LOOKING BACK AT FAIRLYNCH: ADMIRAL PREEDY AND THE VICTORIAN INTERNET (2017)
Continued from https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/07/around-town-and-over-pond-13-looking.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 fourteenth part: 14. LOOKING BACK AT FAIRLYNCH: ADMIRAL PREEDY AND THE VICTORIAN INTERNET (2017) Summary: How a retired naval officer and Budleigh resident played a key role in building ‘the highway of thought between the Old World and the New’. The text in the above stained glass window reads: 'In memory of George William Preedy CB, who when Captain of HMS Agamemnon with the Captain of the USS Niagara successfully laid the first Transatlantic Cable uniting Europe and America in 1858.' Anniversaries make a good reason to stage exhibitions. In 2