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Museum Events 10 June – end of October 2006. Ashburton Modbury (seasonal openings) Iron Horse to the Sea an exhibition 13 and 14 May about Brunel and the growth of Town Hall North Street 5 Modbury Court Church Street Atmospheric Event at Old Forde Torbay at Torquay Museum. Ashburton TQ13 7QQ Modbury PL21 0QR House and Gardens, Newton Tel: 01364 653426 Tel: 01548 830159 Abbot. This event includes a Easter – October [email protected] [email protected] working Atmospheric Model on Mon–Sat 10am – 4.45pm www.modburydevon.co.uk a 90 metre track, demonstrations Sun 1.30 pm –4.45pm Bovey Tracey (seasonal openings) of atmospheric guns, railway Moretonhampstead model lay-outs and local model November-Easter Lower Car Park Station Road Mon-Fri 10am –4.45pm Bovey Tracey TQ13 9AW (seasonal openings) engineers’ displays. 3 The Square Tel: 01803 293975 Tel: 01626 832047 Tel: 01626 201121 Moretonhampstead TQ13 8NF 13 and 14 May Other events Buckfastleigh (seasonal openings) Tel: 01647 440043 Take a FREE ride on a Vintage 16 April to 17 September. Bus from Teignbridge museums 80 Fore Street Newton Abbot Gardens Open at Brunel Manor Buckfastleigh TQ11 0BS to the Atmospheric Event (Entry by donation) 6 Bridge House Tel: 01364 644522 and Newton Abbot Museum Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays Courtenay Street Brunel displays. & Sundays Newton Abbot TQ12 4QS Details from local museums 2:30pm – 5:30pm Dartmouth and District or TICs listed in this leaflet. Tel: 01626 215667 Tel: 01803 329333 The Engine House [email protected] Mayor’s Avenue 19, 26 May and 2 June 11 to 13 May www.southdevon.org.uk Take a FREE ride on a Vintage A Wonderful Alteration, a new Dartmouth TQ6 9YY Bus to the Brunel exhibitions community play for Brunel 200 Tel: 01803 834224 Salcombe in Teignbridge museums. from Wren Music at the [email protected] Council Hall Market Street Look out for details in local Coombeshead Theatre, www.discoverdartmouth.com Salcombe TQ8 8DE press, details from Teignbridge Newton Abbot. Tel: 01548 843927 museums and TICs. Dawlish (seasonal openings) 7.30pm – 9.30pm and [email protected] Sat afternoon 2.30pm – 4.30pm The Lawn www.salcombeinformation.co.uk Meet Mr Brunel 01626 215667 or 01626 201121 Dawlish EX7 9PW 12 May at Newton Abbot Museum Shaldon (seasonal openings) Atmospheric Walks Tel: 01626 215665 Tel: 01626 201121 [email protected] Shaldon Car Park Ness Drive 14 May Old Forde House and www.southdevon.org.uk 13 and 14 May Old Forde House Gardens, Newton Abbot Shaldon TQ14 0HP atmospheric celebrations 13 June Teignmouth and Shaldon Tel: 01626 873723 Museum Atmospheric walk along Ivybridge 30 May Teignmouth and Shaldon the route of the atmospheric rail- Global Travel Teignmouth Museum way. 19 Fore Street Tel: 01626 777041 The Den Sea Front Tel: 01392 410575 Ivybridge PL21 9AP Teignmouth TQ14 8BE 20 April Cookworthy Museum 30 May 2pm Tel: 01752 897035 Tel: 01626 215666 Tel: 01548 853235 Celebration of first passenger [email protected] [email protected] www.southdevon.org.uk 11 and 18 August Ashburton train arriving at Dawlish Station, Kingsbridge and District Museum 1846. The Quay Totnes 12 and 17 August Dawlish Museum 17 June Kingsbridge TQ7 1HS The Town Mill Coronation Rd Tel: 01626 888557 Brunel’s Dart Estuary Railway. Tel: 01548 853195 Steam Railway from Paignton, Totnes TQ9 5DF Other dates to be confirmed. [email protected] Tel: 01803 863168 Look out for details in local press. by boat to Greenway and back. www.kingsbridgeinfo.co.uk Tel: 01803 842382 [email protected] (National Trust – Greenway). www.totnesinformation.co.uk
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See the 2006 exhibition, ‘Brunel’s links Bovey Heritage Centre is housed in the Old An imposing Edwardian building, Britannia with Ashburton’: was he good for the town Station and has permanent exhibitions of Royal Naval College has been the training or not? Many objects on display reflect the railway and school memorabilia, civil war establishment for naval officers since 1905. history of this mining and wool processing artefacts, pottery and an extensive collection The museum recalls the story of naval town. Others, like the Parliament Clock, of old photographs. This year’s new exhibition training at Dartmouth through photo- stoneware jars and pewter ware were locally will feature a model of Bovey Station which graphs and artefacts. made. There is a collection of lace and was constructed to Brunel’s broad gauge. A Contact Dartmouth Tourist Information Victorian toys including two tiny jointed specially constructed display shows aspects Centre on 01803 677787. Contact us for dolls. Surprisingly, there is a superb collection of Brunel’s work such as the chains from the information on group bookings throughout of American Indian artefacts. Great Eastern and photographs of the the year. bridge at Saltash – with links to the local Kelly Mine which produced the rust-proof paint used to paint it! Open: May to September inclusive Tuesdays and Thursdays to Saturdays Open: 1 April to 28 October Monday to Friday 10am – 12pm and 2pm – 4pm Open: Easter to October in term time Wednesday and Sunday afternoons inclusive 2pm – 5pm Saturday 10am – 12pm Ring Tourist Information Centre to book tour
4 Bishopsteignton Museum of Rural Life 5 Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum 6 Dartmouth Museum Shute Hill Bishopsteignton Devon TQ14 9QL The Old Grammar School 108 Fore Street Kingsbridge Devon TQ7 1AW The Butterwalk Dartmouth South Devon TQ13 7BD Tel: 01626 775308 www.devonmuseums.net Tel: 01548 853235 eMail: [email protected] www.devonmuseums.net Tel: 01803832928 eMail: [email protected] www.devonmuseums.net
The Museum offers a glimpse into all Discover the story of Kingsbridge. Explore Dartmouth Museum is housed in a Grade 1 facets of village life in a farming community. the nine galleries, Victorian Kitchen, listed building known as the Butterwalk, Displays range through geology, occupations, Edwardian Pharmacy, ‘South Hams at War’, built about 1640 for a rich mariner. It has dress, village school life, home concerns to a ‘Virtual Museum Tour’ film, and a large a strong nautical theme and local history sports and pastimes. Railways, aeroplanes Farm Gallery in a walled garden. Including collection. 2006 sees the new display of the together with motor transport form promi- child friendly activities, with everything Henley Collection, representing the life and nent features in our collections as does mili- from costumes to carts, this lively museum work of talented Dartmothian, William taria from both world wars. Plus an exhibition and its new displays ‘Brunel 200’ and ‘All in Henley. Visitors can experience a variety of ‘Introducing Mr Brunel’. a Day’s Work’ provides something for all the interactive displays in a loving recreation family, rain or shine. of his Victorian study; look through his microscope; see his paintings of 19th Open: All year round Century Dartmouth, together with his Monday to Saturday inclusive March to November vision for new, elegant municipal buildings. 10am – 4.30pm The Museum also commemorates the forgotten Open: Museum – April to October Monday to Saturday 10.30am – 5pm (October 4pm) November to March lives of ordinary people through costumes, Open: Sundays and Bank Holidays Easter Sunday to 30 September 2.30pm – 4.30pm Local Heritage Resource Centre Throughout the year 11am – 2pm photographs and every day objects.
7 Dawlish Museum 8 Devonshire Collection of Period Costume 9 High Cross House The Knowle Barton Terrace Dawlish Devon EX7 9QH Totnes Costume Museum Bogan House 43 High Street Devon TQ9 5NP Dartington Hall Totnes Devon TQ9 6ED Tel: 01626 888557 eMail: [email protected] www.devonmuseums.net Tel: 01803 862857 Tel: 01803 864114
One whole gallery has been devoted to ‘All Aboard: Clothes for Travel 1770’s A superb International Modernist 1930’s Brunel 200. There is the train from the to 1970’s’ shows 200 years of clothes for house with period furniture. Art exhibited, Railway Children theatre set, a ticket office travelling by coach, train, boat, car and includes paintings by Cecil Collins, Ben where you can date stamp your own ticket plane. Included will be typical clothes that Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher and hands-on signalling, plus a library, many Totnes travellers may have worn when Wood and ceramics by Bernard Leach, Shoji artefacts from the old GWR and a beautiful boarding the train on Mr Brunel’s latest line Hamada, Hans Coper and Lucie Rie. Material railway postcard collection. We have eleven from Exeter to Plymouth in 1847. Shown derived from The Dartington Hall Trust rooms over three floors including Victorian in one of the most interesting Tudor Archive illustrates aspects of the Dartington rooms, local history, military, industry and merchant’s houses. Hall estate soon after its purchase by Dorothy much more. Home of the D-day bagpipes. and Leonard Elmhirst in 1925. New this year – The Bride wore Brown display. Open: May to October Tuesdays to Friday 2pm – 4.30pm Open: 1 May to 30 September every day Open: Monday 29 May to the end of September Tuesdays to Friday 11am – 5pm 25 July to 31 August Tuesday to Friday 10.30am – 12.30pm Monday to Friday 10.30am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday 2pm – 5pm Parties by appointment outside these hours and in October Heritage Open Day Saturday 9 September 10am – 12.30pm and 2pm – 4.30pm 10 Higher Kiln Quarry Caves 11 Newcomen Engine House Newton Abbot Town & GWR Museum William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust Buckfastleigh Devon TQ11 0DY Mayor’s Avenue Dartmouth Devon TQ6 9YY 2A St Paul’s Road Newton Abbot Devon TQ12 2HP Tel: 01752 775195 www.pengellytrust.org.uk Tel: 01803 834224 www.discoverdartmouth.com Tel: 01626 201120 www.devonmuseums.net
The quarrying industry expanded rapidly Nearly 300 years old, the Newcomen Engine Brunel 200 – Atmospheric Event in the 19th century and many caves were in Dartmouth is one of only a few examples 13th to 14th May 2006 discovered. William Pengelly, a renowned of the first engine in the world. Situated cave scientist, visited Buckfastleigh in 1859. inside the Tourist Information Centre, In 2006 the Museum exhibition celebrates Higher Kiln Quarry caves are home to a which is located in the Mayors Avenue car the town’s connections with I K Brunel large colony of protected bats and an park, this original full sized engine and its during the 200th anniversary of his birth. important and extensive 100,000 year old history will be an eye opener; just ask staff Throughout the month of May a folio of fossil bone deposit from a time when rhinos to see it work! watercolours depicting the South Devon roamed the countryside. Museum displays Railway c1848 will be displayed in the include ‘Brunel, Pengelly and their museum, on loan from the Institute of Civil Contemporaries: An Age of Advancement’. Engineers, London. A model of Brunel’s For guided walk information visit the website: atmospheric railway has been installed in www.pengellytrust.org or phone Open: All year Monday to Saturday 10am – 4pm Open: Mid January to end of September the Railway Room, together with a section 01752 775195 Monday to Thursday 10am – 4pm of original atmospheric pipe. Special exhibi- Friday 10am – 12pm tions are mounted each year – we are Saturdays after Easter 2pm – 4pm always changing!
13 Salcombe Maritime & Local History Museum 14 Teignmouth & Shaldon Museum 15 Totnes Elizabethan House Museum The Old Council Hall Market Street Salcombe Devon TQ8 8DE 29 French Street Teignmouth Devon TQ14 8ST 70 Fore Street Totnes Devon TQ9 5RU Tel: 01548 843029 www.devonmuseums.net Tel: 01626 777041 eMail:[email protected] www.teignmuseum.org.uk Tel: 01803 863821 [email protected] www.devonmuseums.net
We will take you down memory lane to the See our railway artefacts, including a The museum, in a superb example of a days of smugglers, shipbuilders and the fast section of Atmospheric pipe. ‘Meet Mr Tudor Merchant’s house takes visitors back fruit schooners of the 19th century. The Brunel days’ and children’s workshops through other times; featuring hands–on children will love the hands-on displays; throughout the season. Find out about Elizabethan Kitchen and Victorian Nursery, there are ship models, boatyard models, old our fascinating maritime heritage, the also a Jacobean reception room and a room photographs, paintings and shipwreck arte- famous wreck site, the first aerodrome dedicated to Victorian inventor Charles facts. New exhibitions for 2006: Brunel in the South West and our local heroes. Babbage (father of the computer) and the Ships, Great Western, Great Britain and Do come and try your luck on the old ill-fated Australian expedition of W J Wills. Great Eastern plus ‘The Railway that Never pier machines! Major new investment this season has Came’. added virtual and audio tours and a Totnes Racecourse exhibition. Service point for Open: Easter weekend Devon Records Office. 1 May to 1 November Mondays to Saturdays 10am – 4.30pm Open: 10 April to 29 October 10.30am – 12.30pm and 2.30pm – 4.30pm Sundays 2pm – 4.30pm (Only during school holidays) Open: 13 March to 27 October Monday to Friday 10.30am – 5pm
16 Totnes Image Bank & St Mary’s Church 17 Totnes Guildhall 18 The Valiant Soldier Museum Town Mill Coronation Road Totnes Devon TQ9 5DF Ramparts Walk Totnes DevonTQ9 5QH 79 Fore Street Buckfastleigh Devon TQ11 0BS Tel: 01803 863168 www.totnesimagebank.org.uk Tel: 01803 862147 Tel: 01364 644522 www.devonmuseums.net
Visit this photographic archive and see The most atmospheric building in Totnes. A village inn for two centuries, The Valiant thousands of Totnes photographs, covering The Guildhall was originally the Rectory of Soldier closed in the 1960’s – and time stood a wide range of subjects, on a computer the 1088 Benedictine Priory. Rebuilt as the still. Furniture, pub artefacts and domestic database. meeting place of the Merchant Guild in 1553. items remained where they were when the From 1624 to 1974 it was used as the local last customer left. See the period bars of a The Brunel 200 exhibition at St Mary’s Church Magistrates Court and the Town Gaol until working man’s pub during the 40’s and 50’s, in the High Street shows the development 1887. See the table where Cromwell and the kitchen portraying domestic life and a and changes – beyond Brunel – at Totnes Fairfax sat in 1646 to plan their South West parlour, bedroom, bathroom and re-creation station including the arrival of the Quay campaign. of the original attic. line, plus the Kingswear changeover from broad gauge to standard gauge.
Open: Totnes Image Bank – All year Monday to Friday 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 4pm Open: Easter to 30 September Monday Tuesday & Wednesday and will open Thursday Open: Easter to end of October Monday to Saturday 12.30pm – 4 pm St Mary’s Church – 24 April to 6 November Monday to Saturday 9am – 5pm and Friday for groups of 10+ by prior arrangement 10am - 3.30pm Last entry 3pm Bank Holidays and Sundays 12.30pm – 4 pm