Budleigh Past and Present

    Above: Photo courtesy of Christopher Wroten Every so often my attention is drawn across the ocean to the affairs of Budleigh Salterton’s sister town of Brewster , on Cape Cod . Nothing official has ever been done to seal the relationship between the our two communities in spite of references to twinning on the internet and even on that Brewster road sign: some might say that maybe it’s better that way. I’m just happy to see via Google news alerts how a small American coastal town which has so many similarities to Budleigh Salterton deals with the issues of daily life that affect us all, ranging from town finances to dog poo. Yes, the battle over whether Brewster’s Drummer Boy Park should have a special dog-walking area has raised hackles and made headlines in much the same way that the Longboat saga has done in Budleigh. The issue of wind turbines in Brewster was another bitterly fought-over area that we in the UK would recognise, though we’ve yet to...