The beautiful Bickham House gardens are open for the National Gardens Scheme from April until October.

Bickham Gardens recently featured in The Independent newspaper and its beautiful landscaped lawns and flower beds are well worth a visit.

Conservatory, small parterre, pond garden, walled kitchen garden, lake. Included in the admission price, the small garden at Bickham Cottage will also be open to the public.

No dogs except assistance dogs. Plants available for sale. Wheelchair access to at least the main features of the garden. Teas available at additional charge...

Visit the Toy and Train Collectors Fair!!

Catering for all collectors, walk, browse and look for those elusive and hard to find models - the list is endless:

Dinky, Corgi, Minichamps, Hornby Bassett Lowke, Meccano, Spot-On, Marklin, Scalextric, EFE, Actionman, Dolls,Teddies .......and much more all under one roof!

Open 10.30am-3pm.

Admission: adults: £3.50, children under 15 free (with an accompanying adult)

www.bulldogfairs.com

As part of the WW1 Centenary programme, author and broadcaster Clive Aslet will give a talk based on his book, War Memorial, which tells the story of the effect of conflict on a small rural community and the thirteen Devon men who lost their lives in WW1.

The evening will begin with a book signing and reception and all proceeds will go to the National Charity of the British Army - ABF The Soldiers' Charity.

Tickets are £25 and include the drinks reception

Details: http://www.soldierscharity.org/events/event-item/war-memorial-south-wes

The annual summer fete this year is on 6 September. It will be opened by Shelley Smith 'X' Factor contestant.

Table top sales, bbq, face painting, bouncy castle, raffle and much more more.

If you would like to have a table where you could sell your own goods you can do so for just £4.00. Please contact Emma on 01392 461779 who can also provide any further information about the event.

Concerts in the West present a classical baroque concert in St Stephen's Church Exeter featuring Jane Gordon (violin) and Julian Perkins (harpsichord)

Interval drinks and disabled access.

Programme:

Handel : Sonata in D J-M Leclair : Sonata (Premier Live) Corelli : Sonata No 12 in D Minor Op5 La Follia Biber : Sonata No5 in D Minor (1681) Biber L Paswsacaglia for solo violin D Scarlatti : Keyboard sonatas K8,K9 and K430 JS Bach : Sonata in E minor

Julian Perkins, established conductor and soloist will be accompanied by Jane Gordon, a highly versatile...

The programme includes music by Cavendish, Bennet, Greene, East, Johnson, Pilkington, Purcell and Robinson.

With Eleanor Cramer (soprano, bass viol), Arngeir Hauksson (lute, guitar, bass), Alison Kinder (viols, recorders), Tamsin Lewis (Renaissance violin, viols, alto), Jack Merivale (actor, baritone)

Passamezzo, founded in 2001, is a dynamic ensemble dedicated to the performance of Early Music in a historically informed context. They specialise in English Elizabethan and Jacobean repertoire, the masque being an important part of their programming, and their concerts have a...

our chance to see one of only four surviving books of Anglo-Saxon literature anywhere in the world. This unique collection of poems and riddles has been at Exeter Cathedral for around 950 years.

Admission free (enter via the Library and Archives from Palace Gate), donations welcome.

1pm-3.30pm

For more information please call 01392 421423

The first of four artists’ responses to RAMM’s collections Polly Morgan’s You Are Here is on display from August.

Polly studied with Scottish taxidermist George Jamieson, and over the past ten years she has played with taxidermy traditions, creating unsettling sculptures that question our often sentimentalised view of the natural world. Her art has caught the imagination of collectors, curators and audiences around the world and she has exhibited in Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the UK and US.

For more information about Polly visit www.pollymorgan.co.uk .

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Commemorating the outbreak of the First World War with works by Walter Bayes and Muirhead Bone, RAMM’s portrait collection will also be represented by two naval heroes of the Napoleonic era with Devon connections - Admiral Edward Pellew and Captain Charles Proby. Pellew rose to become commander of the Mediterranean fleet and a national celebrity after the Bombardment of Algiers whilst Proby also gave outstanding service in the seven years war and the American war of independence.

http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/