Budleigh Past and Present

[Part-time stallholder Sue Chapman muses on an absorbing passion and on the friendly atmosphere generated by buyers and sellers alike on Thursday mornings in the Public Hall] Left: Budleigh Salterton’s Public Hall, ideally located for the weekly flea-market As a child in Melbourne, I remember the excitement of monthly Chuck Out Day when items too big to be taken by the bin men were placed on the nature strip at the front of each house. My Dad and I slipped out at sunset to cruise the streets and a plump, carved chair and a gilt frame became family heirlooms. Mum chose to ignore this predilection. Right: Newton Poppleford-based Liz Sharples - “everyone knows me as busy Lizzie” - with some of her produce, made and grown by local artists and farmers http://www.busylizzies.co.uk/ Later, after regular trawls through trash and treasure markets and opportunity shops (such encouraging names), the interest travelled with me. My employment in a York psychiatric hospital soon made it apparent th...