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Pupils' rail life learning experience from eye-witnesses
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....
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Fairlynch Blooms win 2015 Award
Fairlynch has been awarded 1stprize in the Community Gardens category of the 2015 Budleigh in Bloom competition. The Museum’s volunteer gardeners are feeling pleased that they are certain to have...
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Brendan Neiland at the Brook
Corporate Friends of Fairlynch The Brook Gallery, now based in both Exeter and Budleigh Salterton, is presenting a selection of work from celebrated artist Brendan Neiland, known for his memorable...
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Archaeology studies at Fairlynch get a boost
One of the fine panels in the Priscilla Carter Room at Fairlynch produced by local artist and designer Neil Rogers A rare set of volumes of the Devon Archaeological Society has been offered to...
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Delderfield biographer's new novel
Admirers of East Devon author R.F. Delderfield’s work may remember Fairlynch Museum’s centenary exhibition devoted to him in 2012 and the talk given in Budleigh by his biographer Marion Lindsey-Noble....
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Maggie Giraud’s art talks
Fairlynch volunteer Maggie Giraud has just updated her website (www.talksaboutart.co.uk) and would like to draw your attention to some of the talks she has booked, which she hopes will interest and...
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From slavery to sponges: imagining conversations in Victorian Budleigh Part 2
Continued from http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/from-slavery-to-sponges-imagining.htmlIt seems that John Campbell, the wealthy Budleigh resident and benefactor of Henry John Carter,...
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Object of the Month, November 2016: Our loco plate
November's Object of the Month as featured on Fairlynch Museum's noticeboard, with some accompanying verse! Click on the image to enlarge it. Locomotive 21C114, seen above, was renumbered 34014 in...
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A little clown’s talents revealed
Above: The many faces of Reg Varney, by cartoonist SPARK After the revised edition of Fairlynch Museum’s publication The Budleigh Salterton Railway, something rather different. Work is in progress on a...
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Passionate about the Pebblebeds
Nicky Hewitt in Fairlynch Museum’s Priscilla Carter RoomFairlynch’s own Nicky Hewitt will be giving a presentation about the natural history of the Pebblebed Heaths on Thursday 5 November. Nicky, who...
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From Bluebeard’s Castle to The Woodshed
It’s good to see Fairlynch Museum volunteers out and about speaking about their pet subjects, ranging from the Pebblebeds to Favourite Artists. But Maggie Giraud’s inspection of ‘Something in the...
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As Proust said, Reg Varney lives on... (well, sort of)
Try a madeleine cookie, or a YouTube clipFeeling the need for a bit of nostalgia? Visit a museum! It’s not just self-indulgent. Museums can have a powerfully therapeutic effect when it’s a matter of...
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Bicton’s Countryside Museum gets new guide
The newly edited Guide to Bicton Countryside Museum To Bicton for a weekend walk to admire the autumn colours. But really, I wanted to take another look at the wonderful Bicton Park Botanical Gardens...
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Who’s heard of Henry Beston (1888-1968)?
Image credit: http://www.henrybeston.org/I knew nothing of this American writer and naturalist, but news from Budleigh Salterton’s sister-town of Brewster on Cape Cod on the far side of ‘The Pond’...
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Exeter Festival Chorus at Sidmouth: Sunday 15 November
Fairlynch Trustee Kate Somerby will be performing as one of the members of the Exeter Festival Chorus on Sunday 15 November at 3.00 pm in Sidmouth Parish Church.Professional actress and Fairlynch...
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Thanks! Card Shop Too and TIC
Plenty more copies of The Museum’s newly re-edited publication The Budleigh Salterton Railway have now arrived in local shops. At 40 pages, in a slightly larger font size and in full colour, the new...
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A Doll for December
Dear little LithuanianI do adore your dress.Your eyelashes are charmingAnd excite me, I confess.But when I read your history,And learnt from whence you came,It filled me both with sadnessAnd a little...
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Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir 2015 Christmas Concert
Our Friends in the Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir will be singing a selection of Christmas songs and other songs from its extensive repertoire. They will also welcome local soprano Val Howels as...
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Trial by Jury – wickedly updated in Budleigh on 5 December
Fairlynch Museum's 2016 exhibition 'Our Little Clown' is a a centenary tribute to Reg Varney, former Budleigh resident and a much-loved figure among past British entertainers.Imperial Productions, as...
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