Budleigh Past and Present

  Continued from  https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/06/around-town-and-over-pond-08-from.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 ninth part: Still at the Raleigh Wall. 0.9 CLIMBING THE CONANT FAMILY TREE IN OLD ENGLAND     1. A news cutting from the Boston Globe newspaper, 13 September 1905 American visitors to the UK sometimes ask whether any of Roger’s descendants live in East Budleigh, hoping to meet offspring of his numerous siblings, and perhaps imagining that Conant family reunions take place in Britain as they do in the US.       Looking down on the graves in All Saints’ churchyard   from the tower   No trace re...

  Spring is a lovely time of year for leafleting. And yes, I do mean the mundane job of putting leaflets through doors as well as delivering them in the usual tourist outlets.  The sky is often blue, I enjoy looking at people’s gardens and getting to know our local towns and villages.  And of course it’s good exercise I tell myself as I slog round the streets with a rucksack full of literature delivering to hotels, B&Bs and of course Tourist Information Centres in our corner of Devon. And the work of publicising our museum goes on, with the arrival of summer and the thought that one can combine a day’s outing with a leaflet drop or two.  I do wonder whether it works however. The Direct Marketing Association’s research shows that 48% of consumers actually visited the shop advertised, requested extra information or bought a product after receiving a leaflet through their door. But then they would, wouldn’t they? They’re ...

  James Lackington, the wealthy London bookseller who built Budleigh Salterton's Methodist Church. Last year was the bicentenary of his death Much of the archive material in Fairlynch Museum is due to volunteer researchers like local historian Roger Lendon, who contributes regularly to the Otter Valley Association’s Ovapedia at http://www.ova.org.uk/ovapedia  On Friday 12 February Roger will be giving a talk to the East Devon branch of the Devonshire Association entitled ‘Some 19th century Budleigh worthies’. The talk will follow a short AGM, which begins at 2.30pm Manor Pavilion Theatre in Sidmouth. Roger has given in advance some details of the talk.  After a preliminary preamble on the early history of the area he will focus on a few of Budleigh Salterton’s  inhabitants in the first half of the 19th century.   He will be talking in some detail about Matthew Lee Yeates, the ship owner and bu...

Fairlynch Trustee Kate Somerby will be performing as one of the members of the Exeter Festival Chorus   on Sunday 15 November at 3.00 pm in Sidmouth Parish Church. Professional actress and Fairlynch volunteer Kate Somerby, with friend Described as “a unique Sunday matinée of choral favourites, from the intensity of Lotti's Crucifixus to the cool of Manhattan Transfer's Java Jive ,  the programme   includes Handel's Zadok the Priest , Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine , Queen's Seaside Rendezvous , Paul Simon's Bridge Over Troubled Water plus music by Rachmaninov, Mozart, John Rutter and jazz legend George Shearing. And if that were not enough, also included is Bob Chilcott's masterly musical setting of Aesop's Fables which brings to life each story, from the groaning mountain to the dozing tortoise at the end of the race, in a portrayal of these moral tales that is sure to appeal to audiences of ...

High Peak looking west, seen from the Coast Path between Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton New interpretation panels at High Peak reveal the secrets of this Stone Age site near the South West Coast Path just a few miles east of Budleigh Salterton.   Following the harvesting of the tree crop on High Peak, between Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton, by Clinton Devon Estates an archaeological investigation of High Peak hill camp was carried out in September 2012 to try and discover more about how this enigmatic site has been used over past centuries.       Friend of Fairlynch and children’s author Jan Oke was one of about a dozen volunteers involved in the dig on alternate days. A member of the Devon Archaeological Society, she responded to an advertisement in its newsletter and found herself working alongside professional archaeologists in a group of half a ...