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Christmas cards and cake raffle

30/11/2020

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Fairlynch's Christmas card shows our raffle prize, made by Kristina Evans
On Your Marks, Get Set, No Need to Bake!

 - Not if you buy your Christmas cards from us and are the lucky winner of the Fairlynch Christmas Raffle this year!

The prize is a scrumptious traditional iced Christmas cake in the shape of the museum and one raffle ticket will be included in each pack of five Christmas cards we sell, for the bargain price of £4 per pack. You can order packs online or buy them in person at Fairlynch, 10.00 - 12.00 on Thursday 3rd to Saturday 5th December, when our volunteers will be on hand to accept contactless payment, observing Covid-19 safety precautions.

There are just 100 tickets and the draw will be made on 21st December. The notified winner must be able to collect the cake from Fairlynch.

The prize has been made by professional cake maker Kristina Evans and is a traditional fruitcake with brandy soaked fruit and nuts covered with homemade marzipan and fondant icing. It is approximately 10 in/25 cms across.

The cards are A5 sized with wording inside: With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

To order online, please follow the link below to Devon Museums' shop.

Good luck!

Devon Museums Online Shop
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Fairlynch benefits from Co-op local community Fund

12/11/2020

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Budleigh Salterton Co-op has shown its support for Fairlynch by choosing us as a local community cause, so we can receive funding through its membership scheme.

If you are a member of the Co-op and select the shop's own-brand products, you will accrue cash savings and the same amount will be donated to the local cause you choose - but you do need to register which cause you support and always remember to use your membership card.

Register online for Co-op membership at coop.co.uk/membership and select Fairlynch from the list of local good causes, or if you’re already a member but haven’t selected a cause, please log in to your membership account and plump for us now!

The easiest way is to click on the button below and pick us!

Our thanks to the people at the Co-op’s Local Community Fund.
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History in the making

10/9/2020

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Donate your stories, photos and artefacts to the fairlynch Covid-19 archive

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Budleigh Salterton’s mystery yarn-bomber Knitsy has donated their Covid-themed creation to Fairlynch for our pandemic archive and eventual exhibition.

The rainbow-coloured crochet with its cheerful poem appeared on the pole at the end of the Raleigh Wall at the beginning of May, when we were in the midst of lockdown. Like the pebble-artist Simon Wood’s amazing beach art and local people’s displays of painted pebbles along the seafront, it was designed to raise a smile when many of us were feeling anxious and downcast.

Fairlynch is collecting local stories, photographs and memorabilia from the Covid-19 pandemic, so please let us know if you have something to share with us. We are living through a historic time and one day we’ll want to look back on it – hopefully from a position of good health and economic security!
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If you have a contribution for the archive, please contact Roz Hickman or Diane Waddington at history@fairlynchmuseum.uk 

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Annual general meeting 2020

8/9/2020

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The AGM will now take place on Wednesday 23rd September 2020, at 2.30 PM and is open to all Friends of the Fairlynch. Due to the continuing social distancing restrictions, the Trustees have decided to hold the meeting using video-conferencing software. Any Friends wishing to attend should email the Secretary, Susan Lacey, at secretary@fairlynchmuseum.uk 
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River Otter beaver trial - the verdict

6/8/2020

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Picture Fairlynch has been following the River Otter Beaver Trial
River Otter beavers can stay!
 
A government review of the five-year reintroduction trial has concluded that beavers do more good than harm in our environment, so the River Otter beavers, thought to number around 50 individuals, can stay as a permanent keystone species in our local ecology.
 
Beavers were hunted to extinction in England 400 years ago, and this landmark decision by Defra marks the first legally sanctioned reintroduction of an extinct native mammal in England.
 
“Our rivers and wetlands really need beavers and this is brilliant news,” said Mark Elliot, who coordinated the trial for Devon Wildlife Trust.
 
Defra based its decision on the report by trial partners DWT, Clinton Devon Estates, University of Exeter and Derek Gow Associates. It found that reintroducing beavers had significant benefits for fish and other wildlife populations and diversity, water quality and flood management.
 
The Wildlife Trusts now hope this success will lead to a national strategy, perhaps involving subsidies to landowners who allow landscape engineering by beavers to create new wetlands. There should also be assistance for farmers whose agricultural income is adversely affected.
 
Environment minister Rebecca Pow told the BBC that under a new subsidy system after the UK leaves the EU, “those with land will be paid for delivering services, such as flood management and increased biodiversity….Using beavers in a wider catchment sense, farmers could be paid to have them on their land.”

Fairlynch has been closely following the River Otter Beaver Trial with an evolving exhibition in the Priscilla Hull Room. 
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Cancellation of public events due to covid-19

18/3/2020

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In light of the latest government advice, and in order to protect volunteers and visitors alike, the Trustees have taken the decision to cancel all public activities associated with the Fairlynch Museum until further notice.

Please note that the following events have been cancelled or postponed:
  • Wednesday 1st April - Coffee Time Talk (cancelled)
  • Thursday 9th April - Preview Event for Friends of Fairlynch (postponed indefinitely)
  • Wednesday 6th May – Annual General Meeting and Talk (postponed indefinitely)

In addition, the Museum will not open as planned on 10th April, but will remain closed until such times as the advice from the Government changes, and Trustees feel that it is safe to open the Museum to visitors.

Keeping the Museum closed will not reduce our running costs – last year it cost about £37 a day just to keep it going. With this delay in opening for the 2020 Season, we will be facing a reduction in our anticipated income from entry fees and visitor donations, so any additional donations would be most gratefully received. You can do this by cheque made payable to ‘Budleigh Salterton Arts Centre & Museum’ or through the Big Give button below.

Trustees will be reviewing the situation on a regular basis and we will keep the website updated about any changes.

In the meantime, we hope that you stay safe and well, and look forward to welcoming you to the Museum as soon as feasible.

Trevor Waddington OBE
Chair
On behalf of the Trustees
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Annual General Meeting - sadly cancelled

11/3/2020

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The Museum's Annual General Meeting which was due to take place in Peter Hall on Wednesday, 6 May 2020 followed by a talk by Tony Venning on 'Samuel Pepys, Diarist - His Life and Loves' has sadly had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak.
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COFFEE TIME TALK: March 2020 The Romans in Devon

5/1/2020

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A Roman coin from the Seaton Down hoard in the RAMM collection

talk by philip smith

Venue: The Peter Hall
Entry: £5
Discounted to £3 for Friends of Fairlynch
10.30am-12noon


Coffee and biscuits are served from 10.30am with the talks starting at 11am and lasting 45 minutes. Contact us for more details...

ALL WELCOME
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Party time at the Peter Hall

16/12/2019

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Thirty Museum volunteers enjoyed an evening together on Saturday 14 December 2019 at what has become a regular pre-Christmas fixture in the Fairlynch calendar. The fish and chips supper was provided by Budleigh Fish Café and proved a popular choice, followed by mince pies and cream and a raffle! Cheers! Here’s to many more Fairlynch parties!

The 2020 end of season party for volunteers will be on Saturday 7 November 2020. How about joining us if you’re not already a volunteer? 
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Cecil Elgee (1904 -1984)

4/12/2019

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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 Characters in the Days of the British Raj', the book which appeared just before her death. But her work as a painter and illustrator covered a wide range of subjects.

Born in 1904, Cecil Elgee, better known by her family nickname as Moppie or Mops, went out to India to join her parents in Bombay in 1922 when she was 18 and studied at the Bombay School of Art. On her return to England in 1927, the family settled in Budleigh Salterton and she continued her art studies at the Exeter Art School, founded in 1854 as part of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.

During World War 2 she served as a Naval VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) at the Royal Naval Hospital in Plymouth. She went through the Plymouth Blitz and at the end of the war she was one of the twelve Naval VADs in the Victory Parade in London. When demobilised she returned home to look after and subsequently nursed her elderly father and later her widowed sister.

Working from her home at 9 Copplestone Road in Budleigh Salterton she proved to be a prolific and versatile artist. Her work was always in demand, especially when she portrayed animals - both family pets, and working animals. Cecil Elgee died in 1984 but her name lives on in the Cecil Elgee Memorial prize, awarded by the Budleigh Salterton Art Club.

The latest acquisition is the fifth of her watercolour paintings in Fairlynch’s collection.
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England's Oldest Lace Bobbin Discovered in Budleigh

4/12/2019

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England's Oldest Lace Bobbin Discovered in Budleigh
This was recently confirmed by lace historian Brian Lemin of New South Wales, Australia. The 11½ cm long wooden bobbin is carved with the initials MR and the date 1662.

Fairlynch's curator of lace Sue Morgan says “It came into the museum's collection in the 1990s and its origin is unknown.
However, style and decoration are typical of an East Devon trolly-lace bobbin made for a lace-maker with the initials MR in 1662.”

Museum chairman Trevor Waddington commented “It was made just two years after the Restoration of King Charles II and four years before the Great Fire of London. If only these objects could talk!”
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COFFEE TIME TALK: Feb 2020 The Management of the Pebblebed Heaths

7/11/2019

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Talk by Kim Strawbridge

February 2019
​Venue: The Peter Hall
Entry: £5
Discounted to £3 for Friends of Fairlynch
10.30am-12noon


Coffee and biscuits are served from 10.30am with the talks starting at 11am and lasting 45 minutes. Contact us for more details...

ALL WELCOME
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COFFEE TIME TALK: Nov 2019 The work of war artist Richard Caton Woodville

9/10/2019

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When Night Sets in The Sun is Down by Richard Caton Woodville
When Night Sets In The Sun Is Down. WWI postcard based on a painting by Richard Caton Woodville

talk by brian portch

November 2019
​Venue: The Peter Hall, behind St Peter’s Church
Entry: £5
Discounted to £3 for Friends of Fairlynch
10.30am-12noon


Coffee and biscuits are served from 10.30am with the talks starting at 11am and lasting 45 minutes. Contact us for more details...

ALL WELCOME
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The Fairlynch Pig

18/4/2019

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The Fairlynch Pig
Recently Christine Hadley, who curates the Fairlynch toy collection, re-discovered the Fairlynch Pig and has made this short video of him (or her).

He was made in about 1930 by the French automaton company Roullet et Descamps in Paris. He is about 30cm long covered in pink chamois leather with glass eyes.  He walks, nods his head and grunts!
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The Making of a Museum

26/4/2017

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A long-awaited booklet about the history of Fairlynch is now available with the publication of The Making of a Museum, edited by Fairlynch Trustee Michael Downes.  Based on a 1987 study of the museum building itself, the new title has been brought out to mark Fairlynch’s 50th anniversary and chronicles the development of a much-loved Budleigh institution from its beginnings up to the present day.

At over 50 pages and lavishly illustrated with almost 100 images, The Making of a Museum is a tribute to the original founders of Fairlynch as well as a story of determination and vision. It was a story crowned by many achievements.  One of the most notable was persuading the Tate Gallery to allow on two occasions the showing in Budleigh of Millais’ original painting ‘The Boyhood of Raleigh’.

The booklet is available from the Museum shop, price £5.00. All profits go to Fairlynch. ​
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