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Scrolling through half a century of Budleigh heritage
Shown above is the first publicity notice about the newly opened Museum in Budleigh Salterton back in 1967.CLICK HERETO SCROLL THROUGH NEARLY 50 YEARS OF FAIRLYNCHMUSEUMAND ARTS CENTRE. IF YOUR...
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Blogging in verse
At FairlynchMuseum there's masses to see, But that's not a problem cos all of it's free!So ditch all your worries and head for the seaWhere a welcome awaits you In lovely Budleigh! Well actually there...
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Budleigh prints in sale
Two antique engravings of Budleigh Salterton will attract keen interest from local collectors at a Silver, Collectors and General Sale in Exmouth on Monday 7 October. The Museum’s Antiquities...
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Sporting Offer from Exmouth’s Beacon School
With composite materials like carbon fibre and Kevlar being increasingly used in sports equipment manufacture it seems that traditional wooden items will one day be seen as museum pieces. So the...
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
So wrote the narrator of L.P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between. But FairlynchMuseum is one of many organisations in Budleigh Salterton which are hoping that the differences between customs and...
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The Uphams of Bicton
In search of the past: Pictured are George Martin and his wife Agnes in Fairlynch Museum's Local History Room“Who do you think you are?” is a question that’s increasingly nagging many people curious...
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Just mossin*, really
Orchis mascula, the early purple orchidWell, what a summer! A real summer at last, which left most things in the garden gasping for rain, which finally came, only to be followed by another long...
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Sharing Science with Sidmouth
For one day on Wednesday 16 October Fairlynch will be open to visitors from 10.00 am - 1.00 pm in association with the what looks like a highly interesting Sidmouth Science Festival, now in its...
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Costumes bringing us closer
Above: The Sewall-Scripture House, built in 1832, at 40 King Street in Rockport , Massachusetts. It is one of two museums in Rockport administered by the Sandy Bay Historical SocietyGoogle the...
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‘Survival!’ to live on in cyberspace
Above: The 2011 poster advertising Fairlynch exhibition 'Survival!' With the ‘Sea, Salt and Sponges’ exhibition at Fairlynch Museum about to close in early November I am now thinking of how to dispose...
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Kimmo Evans ‘Fifty Years of the AONB’
An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of high scenic quality which has statutory protection in order to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of its landscape.There are only just...
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Fairlynch Friend went for the burn
Image credit: Trudie BurneYou may have wondered why Fairlynch publicity bears the logo of Bradleys Estate Agents. It’s simply that manager Robin Burne very generously agreed back in February 2011,...
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Angels come to St Peter’s
Christine Lee is one of Britain’s outstanding figurative sculptors. She’s also a Friend of Fairlynch and it was her friendship with the Museum’s late President that prompted the exhibition of her...
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People from the Past 7: Cecil Elgee (1904-84)
Like many Budleigh residents of the past, the artist Cecil Elgee had an Anglo-Indian background and it was for this that her name will be known by those familiar with Costumes and...
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People from the Past 8: Joan Bannister (1909-1991)
Much-loved Budleigh Salterton teacher Joan Bannister in her eighties, with one of her pupils in the Linhay classroom at FairlynchJoan Bannister must surely hold the record as Budleigh Salterton’s...
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Fascinated by Fairlynch’s old fossils
You might think that this is a rather fine photo I’ve taken but just wait until March next year when fossils like this from Fairlynch’s collection will be viewable in the sort of truly...
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Celebrating our natural beauty
Kimmo Evans with a trophy recently presented to East Devon AONB The idea of Winter Talks arranged in partnership by FairlynchMuseum and the Otter Valley Association, first suggested in 1979, is...
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The very picture of a loving doll
“I’d have thought you’d have got past that stage!” was one of the quips that auctioneer Piers Motley-Nash had to put up with from onlookers this morning as he was posing with this porcelain beauty from...
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Celebrating Christmas at Fairlynch
Somehow I don't think Fairlynch Museum's Christmas lights are going to look like this.
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Keeping our heritage healthy
I’ve always eaten porridge for breakfast. No milk, no sugar, just a few tablespoons of rolled oats cooked in water until it looks, as my family rudely describes it, like sloppy concrete. It sounds...
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