Budleigh Past and Present

 Continued from  https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/06/around-town-and-over-pond-11-pacifist.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 twelth part: 12. FAIRLYNCH: THE SIR WALTER RALEGH ROOM     And so to the quaint little building called Fairlynch, originally Primrose Cottage, which became Budleigh Salterton’s Museum and Arts Centre in 1967.   On the way you pass The Octagon, where the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais is said to have stayed while starting work on ‘The Boyhood of Raleigh’.   ‘Raleigh and his son Walt’ in my digital version.  The original, dated 1602 by an unknown artist, is in the National Portr...

Continued from  https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/06/around-town-and-over-pond-04-diversion.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 fifth part: Still at the Raleigh Wall. 0.5 'AN AMERICAN HERO?' Raleigh did not visit North America but in some parts of the US he is possibly better known than in the country of his birth.  Some Americans from areas like New England, Virginia and North Carolina have evidently seen him as a kind of forefather or pioneer to whom they owe their place in the New World. He was presented among the ‘Heroes of American History’ in the book published in 1909 by author Frederick A. Ober.      Photo of James Russell Lowell...