Budleigh Past and Present

This blog, as I write elsewhere, is a kind of museum in cyberspace covering mainly news and features relating to Budleigh Salterton and the surrounding villages of the Lower Otter Valley.   Inevitably it’s turning out to be a useful archive for people wanting to stage exhibitions at Fairlynch Museum, or simply to fill gaps in research, with that useful search engine box in the top left corner. So I was a bit put out to discover that somehow I hadn’t included the following appreciation of the life of Museum volunteer Bernard Quinn, although it was published on the Devon Museums’ Fairlynch site on 2 February 2012. Well, I can’t get everything  right.  Anyway, here's the missing post: Although some years have passed now since his death at the age of 84, on 9 April 2010, Bernard Quinn, pictured above, is well remembered at Fairlynch for the cheerful and friendly approach with which he greeted visitors and fellow-volunteers, as well as for his spirit of d...