Budleigh Past and Present

We're so grateful to our Museum's Benefactors.  It costs nearly £50 a day to maintain this historic building and care properly for its contents.

In the second of a series of posters illustrating different aspects of Fairlynch Museum we look at the Costume Department . Click on the image to enlarge it.

Our Museum needs a fridge! Click on the image to make it bigger.

Nice to see the Budleigh Journal (12 March 2015) covering the Venture Art Group's Millais Boyhood of Raleigh' project. The painting will be on show in Fairlynch from 3 April when the Museum re-opens. Click on the image to enlarge. 

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In the first of a series of posters illustrating activities at Fairlynch we look at what the Museum does for young people. Click on the image to make it full-size.

St Peter's School Church of England Primary School, on Barn Lane, Budleigh Salterton As an ex-teacher in retirement I’ve tended to keep my distance from the increasingly complex world of education. I was never really bright enough to grapple with all that stuff about targets, key stages and so on. Early on in my teaching career I was told by a much revered schoolmaster that red herrings and ‘frees’ – i.e. free periods – were the two most important things in education. Along with those I’d obviously add that we should be teaching children consideration for others, kindness, common sense, curiosity and open-mindedness and general politeness. Maybe I’m just old fashioned. Happy children from St Peter's School learn about stuff in the Museum  So I was impressed the other day while walking past St Peter’s C of E Primary School to be stopped by some of the children on the other side of the fence. “Could you get our ball back p...