Budleigh Past and Present

Colin Yeats, left, and Leo Dolling with children from Budleigh’s St Peter’s School Two former British Railways employees were kind enough to welcome nearly 30 children from St Peter’s CofE School during a visit to Fairlynch on 9 November 2017. The KS1 children, accompanied by teacher Elizabeth Stubbs and adult helpers, had been studying changes in transport as a class subject. The Museum's railway display in the Local History Room, with its many artefacts, saved when the branch line and station closed in 1967, proved to be an effective teaching aid for the children.  Naturally there was fun involved when they were allowed to wear the station master’s cap, and there was a rare chance for some to hold the ceremonial spade used by Lady Gertrude Rolle on 6 November 1895 to cut the first sod for the building of Budleigh Salterton Station.  For Yettington’s Colin Yeats who had worked on the Budleigh branch line railway it was the second...

https://tutora.co.uk/get-kids- out-learning Fairlynch has teamed up with an educational organization which we hope will result in more children visiting the Museum, making an afternoon at Fairlynch a truly enriching family experience. And it still costs nothing!   ‘Get Kids Out Learning is an easy way for families to find fun days out local to them, but which still provide great learning and educational opportunities for the kids,’ says CEO Scott Woodley, a former primary school teacher who founded the organisation.  ‘Our website pulls together all of the best educational venues across the UK and allows parents to search for them by region to quickly see all the information they need to plan a great day out!’ Locally, Get Kids Out Learning has teamed up with places like the World of Country Life and Coldharbour Mill; bigger names in the partnership include St Paul’s Cathedral, London, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and Leeds Castle in Kent.   ...

Nearly 70 Budleigh Salterton children gained first-hand knowledge of the town’s now vanished rail links when they met two former British Railways employees during a visit to Fairlynch Museum.  Yettington residents Colin Yeats, pictured above, left, and Roy Letten both worked on the Budleigh branch lin e railway until it was closed in 1967.  Both are seen in the photo here with children who were accompanied by their teachers and support staff.  And here are more photos to show you some 'interractive' - hate that word - aspects of the visit.   “We’re really grateful to Colin and Roy for giving up their time,” said Fairlynch volunteer Kate Somerby, who had organised the visit to the museum by Key Stage 1 pupils from the town’s St Peter’s Church of England Primary School.  “It was a very special expe...