Budleigh Past and Present

Isn’t it frustrating   - and sometimes embarrassing - when you try to remember a name of someone you met, and just can’t manage it. Photos in museum collections can be just as annoying when only a few of the faces have been properly identified, or when names have been misspelt.   So it was a pleasure to meet former Drake’s School pupil Michael Adams when he called at the Museum recently, helpfully  providing some missing names of his friends from over 70 years ago.  Amusingly, one of these turned out to be a young Roy Letten, a former British Railways employee who sold the last ever tickets at Budleigh Salterton station on 4 March 1967. Here he is, in a photo which I’m going to use in the new edition of Fairlynch Museum’s booklet The Budleigh Salterton Railway.   In the school photo seen above,  Roy is fifth from the left, in the middle row. Now in his eigh...