News & Events

Beer on East Devon's World Heritage Coast

 

Bat computer game coming soon to the bomb shelter

free activity

Check out their website here


Devon Bat Project

Display now on in the Bomb Shelter

 

 

 Hedgeplanting for Bats in Beer
Wednesday 13th February
Time: 10.30am - 3.30pm
Location: Southdown Farm, Beer
Help us plant a hedge on a bank near Beer Head CaravanPark. This will provide protection and a flight corridor forgreater horseshoe bats, as well as a home for other wild-life.
Full details given on booking
To book your place email bats@devonwildlifetrust.org
The planting is on a steep bank so you need to bephysically fit to get involved. Bring a spade
and wear suitable clothing /sturdy footwear. Bring a thermos and a packed lunch.


Beer is a Winner

Try the link below - Beer was the overall winner of the Best Picnic Spots in Britain

http://www.countryfile.com/article/uks-best-picnic-spots-revealed

Dear Members et al,
 We’re delighted to tell you that Beer Village Heritage was the runner-up, alongside the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, for the Acland Award 2017. 


Beer also made it to the final on Channel 4's Village of the year


Thanx also to all those others that helped install the -

climb-thru porthole - fence - new cover for inner porthole - the refurbishment of electric handle and the "Don't Push That Button" feature


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Coming on Dimpsy in Beer


DIY Events

All year round - Free Download for the Jubillee Pebble Quiz Sheet for the Big Bug Hunt, Brass-rubbing sheets and the Cowerslea Way short loop walk leaflet from

 Beer Parish Council


free activity


Self-guided walks

around Beer and the Beer area

see links and free downloads on our Leaflets-walks-maps page

free activity


connections between

Geology & History?

Visit the Self-Shelter - free entry

Jubilee Gardens overlooking Beer Beach Fantastic display & story of Beer


free activity

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Rock pooling

During the season - spring tides (around full & new moons) - weather permitting

donation

Watch for Banner outside the Heritage Centre

Equipment supplied

 Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear

 

Bomb Shelter

Come and see the bomb and read the story that goes with it

free entry

Behind Jimmy Green's Shop, Fore Street

same hours as the shop

Also available for pop-up displays or exhibitions of history, science & art


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Guided Walks & Talks

Salt Water Tanks

Now empty until next Easter 2019

free activity


Poet-in-Residence

Our very own Poet-in-residence

- Sarah Acton -

Her book of Poems inspired by the Jurassic Coast is now available


Beach Clean

DIY  10min beach clean - help yourself to a bag and borrow one of our picker-uppers by the entrance to the Centre - interesting what you find - doing the environment a favour - feel good factor

free activity

Some events such as Rockpooling depend on weather and tides - Contact us at : beervillageheritage@yahoo.co.uk


Other Walks - Loops & Long - Websites Linx


If you would like to be notified of upcoming events then send an email requesting so, to

beervillageheritage@yahoo.co.uk - Your email address will then be added to the list

If you would like to be a member or friend then come to an event and pay £2.50 per person p.a. or £5 per family

Friends have access to, and use of, the secret friends page with copyright and other benefits

Other self-guided walks on our Maps & Walks page

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Note the volume of beach around Bob's Knob - New Year 2015

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If Dogs Run Free

Eastertime 1975

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Circa 1902

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Bob's Knob circa 1955?

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The Pier - King's Isle

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Dec 2018


N.B The size of the beach compared with today!!!

 

Post code for your Sat Nav EX12 3EE - Top of the slope down to the beach

 

beer_blow_in.pdf
Free download Beer Blow-in Questionaire

A jingle written in 1920  by Kenneth Lindsay, at that time an undergraduate but who became a barrister , a K.C. and the Labour MP for Kilmarnock – sung to the tune of “Clementine”

 

          Down in Devon, down in Devon

          There’s a village oh so dear

          Sure it’s just a bit of heaven         

          And the angels call it Beer.

 

          Mr. David, the schoolmaster

          Is a Jack of every trade

          Always shiny like the briny

          Sticks to jobs like marmalade

 

          The fishermen will kindly

          Take you anywhere for a bob,

          Except old (blank blank), their Charlie Chaplin

          Who charges eighteen pence without a sob.


The present version was written in the late 1970s by Mike Green & Gayle Chapple

Coming up for a centenary!!!