Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from  https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/07/around-town-and-over-pond-12-fairlynch.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 thirteenth part: 13. LOOKING BACK AT FAIRLYNCH: RALEIGH 400 (2018)   Summary: Marking the 400 th anniversary of Raleigh’s death at Budleigh Salterton’s museum AA signs were used for the first time by Fairlynch Museum to promote a special event.   In addition to items on permanent display in the Raleigh Room, for the Raleigh 400 exhibition there were many special items on loan from private collections.   Clockwise from top left: . Sherborne Castle, Winchester’s Great Hall, the Tower of London and St Margaret’s Churc...

 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-10-american.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 eleventh part: Still at the Raleigh Wall. 11. PACIFIST FANTASIES MEET 'COLONIAL ASSOCIATIONS' AND 'A FEAR OF THE PAST'  I was moved   by the seemingly pacific character of Roger Conant.   It seems to stand out in such stark contrast with some of his brutal contemporaries, and I felt that this peace loving Devonian deserved to be better known in his homeland. Could he even become a pacifist icon?   Not only had he intervened to avoid bloodshed in 1625, but he had cooperated in the peaceful transfer of power to G...