News & Events
Beer on East Devon's World Heritage Coast
Brand New
Live Stream of Bats from Beer Quarry Caves
copy and paste this link into
your address box
http://www.beerquarrycaves.co.uk/bats/
or click button below
http://www.beerquarrycaves.co.uk/bats/
New
The Waymarked Link Route from
Beer to the East Devon
Way is now complete
It starts on the Jubilee at Beer
and joins the East Devon
Way just north of
Colyton
See it on YouTube - copy and paste this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd8o8qzTxls&t=3s
Beer Village Heritage would like to create an historic document
It will be about YOUR experiences during the Covid-19 Times
Please e-mail to Norah norahbeer@btinternet.com preferably in a word document, but not crucial
anything you would like to be
included in the final folder - writings or photos
This will be of great interest to others in the future
Thank-you and stay well all of you
Bomb Shelter
Due to
Covid-19 is Closed
Heritage Centre is
closed
Beer is a Winner
Beer was the overall winner of the Best Picnic Spots in Britain
Beer made it to the final on Channel 4's Village of the year
Supporting the creation of a series of links between the SW Coast Path and the East Devon Way
See below a free download pdf file with a guide to some of the basic geology of the East Devon Coast.
It shows some of the features to look out for and some of the items one might find
when explorig our great beaches on the Jurassic Coast
Answers to the I-Spy are
available as a separate down load below
Here is one of our
entries
Covid – 19 Reflections.
This lockdown has transported me back to my childhood.
My whole world contained within my house and garden.
Our only visitors, the tradesmen who deliver
Groceries orders put together by strangers.
Once again I can spend whole days outdoors
Grubbing amongst the weeds, evicting snails
Raking seedbeds and potting-on small plants
Mowing, hoeing, pruning, sowing.
In my childhood I was able to roam the woods
Where I found sanctuary in the lightning- split tree
Or on branches of the pollarded willow
Which made a perfect couch for reading.
Now my couch for reading is man-made -
A chair constructed from a redundant pallet.
My tree replaced by the flower-lined balcony
My view is of the restless sea below white cliffs
My thoughts keep returning to that child
Who played alone in the woods, created games
In the bluebells and listened for the badger’s snores.
Thank you, Covid -19, for those memories.
Also don't forget Ruth’s Blow-Ins project
this is a similar project to the
Virus Project - see above
We would like a short story from any Blow-ins
"what prompted you to move to Beer?"
Details in also in the BAG newsletter
Contact Ruth - ruthtoohoots@gmail.com
Why
not have a go at Norah's I-Spy?
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
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
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
Sundays
only
free entry
Behind Jimmy Green's Shop, Fore Street
Also available for pop-up displays or exhibitions of history, science & art
Guided Walks & Talks
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Salt Water Fish Tanks
Sorry
- None in 2020
free
activity
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
Also try a quick look at
https://www.cleanjurassiccoast.uk/
Some events such as Rockpooling depend on weather and tides - Contact us at : beervillageheritage@yahoo.co.uk
Other Walks
- Loops & Long - Website
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
Note the volume of beach around Bob's Knob - New Year 2015
If Dogs Run Free
Eastertime 1975
Circa 1902
Bob's Knob circa 1955?
The
Pier - King's Isle
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
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!!!
“DOWN IN
DEVON”
(Beer’s Anthem)
Sung to the tune of “Oh! My Darling Clementine”
Down in Devon, down in
Devon,
There’s a village by the sea.
It’s a little piece of heaven
And the angels call it Beer
They call us Spaniards, they call us Dutchmen,
But we’re English evermore.
And we live here in God’s Country,
And we love our Devon shore
(Chorus - Down in Devon…)
I’ve been thinking, while I’ve been drinking,
‘Bout our haven by the sea.
In the whole of Devon county
Nowhere else I’d rather be … than …
(Chorus - Down in Devon…)
Written for one of the early Panto People pantomime productions