THREE more coffee time talks

Guilty as charged? Former High Court judge Sir Richard Gibbs delivers the next Coffee Time Talk on Wednesday 7th February in St Peter’s Church Hall at 11am. He will provide an insight into the dilemmas faced by defence counsel in criminal cases.
 
Arrive at 10.30 to enjoy a coffee or tea and biscuit and chat with friends before the talk begins. Entry costs £4 for Friends of Fairlynch and £6 for others.
 
There are two more talks for the calendar: on Wednesday 6th March Sarah Bussy will tell us all about Joyce Dennys (1893-1991), Budleigh Salterton’s own artist, dramatist, diarist and GP’s wife, the subject of her biography published in 2021. Joyce Dennys was the daughter of Lt-Col Charles Dennys of the Indian Army but the family moved back to the UK when she was eleven and made a home in Budleigh Salterton. A career in illustration and comic writing followed, and marriage to Dr Tom Evans. For three decades her work appeared regularly in the Sketch and Punch and her later paintings can be seen at Fairlynch.
 
Our final Coffee Time Talk is on Wednesday 3rd April, when Fairlynch chairman Trevor Waddington re-introduces us to Admiral George William Preedy RN. (1817-1894).  Preedy joined the navy aged eleven, rose up the ranks to become a Rear-Admiral, and was responsible for laying the first transatlantic cable before retiring to Budleigh Salterton. In 2017 Fairlynch celebrated the bicentenary of Preedy, and his contribution to worldwide telecommunication!