Budleigh Past and Present

New arrival on the cultural attractions scene: the Heymuseums logo Volunteers at Fairlynch  are cheering at the news that their museum has been judged one of the most popular in the region according to a specialist website. Heymuseums places the Budleigh Salterton museum, located in a listed 19 th century thatched building described as a “marine cottage orn é ” on the town’s Fore Street, as one of the leading attractions of its type in East Devon.  The website, which calls itself the United Kingdom´s most updated site for finding museums and art galleries, puts Fairlynch near the top of its list for the area, second only to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery. It currently boasts of guiding online visitors to   5,898 museums  in the UK.   Facebook logo. For Heymuseums, Facebook plays a key part in listing a museum’s popularity The site’s popularity-rank...

How ironic that local primary school children may not be able to study Victorian and Edwardian history. For that’s in a town where the local museum is putting on three exhibitions this year relating to those important periods in Britain ’s development. And where the town itself is full of landmarks dating from those times, including Fairlynch Museum itself. This latest development in our schools, according to the Association of Independent Museums (AIM), would be as a result of yet another education initiative.   The Association is strongly opposed to the government's proposals to remove Victorian and early 20th century history from Key Stage 2 History, believing that it will have a damaging effect on children’s learning and appreciation of history. Under the proposed curriculum changes 18th, 19th, and 20th century history would no longer be covered in primary schools; instead this would form part of Key Stage 3 taught at secondary school level. AIM feels that th...