Sidmouth Folk Festival Venues 20 - Woodlands Hotel

            Address: Station Street, Sidmouth.

As far back as the 13th Century there was a building on the current Woodlands site. Around 1815 Lord Gwydir built the present building and changed its name from Old Hayes to Woodlands. In 1855 Rear Admiral Henry Digby replaced the thatched roof with one with italianate terracota decoration. By 1909 Woodlands had become a GP surgery. Later in the mid-20th century it was almost demolished and by 1971 it was renovated as a hotel.

The Woodlands was first  used as a festival venue around 2006. By the 2010s "Traditional Night Out" (initially hosted by John Howson) was a daily event here. It did not return after lockdown (moving to the Arts Centre) and was replaced by Bob & Gill Berry’s "Folk Arts Acoustic". Sheila Miller's "Ballad Sessions" is another regular occurrence scheduled for every afternoon. Before lockdown events took place in the hotel's conservatory. Since then they are in a small marquee erected in the garden.

Here I have attended "Traditional Night Out" (from 2016 to 2019) and other gigs  including Bryony Griffith (2018), Dollymopps (2018), Mike Wilson (2022) and Sara Grey & Riley Baugus (2023).

In this Photo: The Marquee.

UPDATE: The Woodlands was not used as a venue for the 2024 festival. Apparently this was the choice of the festval rather than the building owners.

Taken in: UK / England / East Devon District / Sidmouth (show map)

Taken on: July 30, 2022

Tags:

Music Venue

Sidmouth

Woodlands Hotel « less

Sets appears in: • Sidmouth Folk Festival Venues

Groups appears in: • Festivals: Music, Art and Folk Fests • Sidmouth - Devon more » • Devon, UK « less

Camera: Canon EOS 1000D, f/16.0, 1/160 sec, 18mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 1000D
Aperture:	f/16.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	18mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Digital Photo Professional
Show full info

Stats: 159 views

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder