Especial thanks to our speakers:
Janet Cutler gave a wickedly humorous illustrated talk on Brunel in the West Country. The slides she showed demonstrated the great determination she had to get some of the wonderful shots. The one of the SS Great Britain's last time afloat - as she lumbered up the Avon into Bristol, showed how decrepit the old boat was, after her sojourn in The Falklands as a warehouse and then being scuttled and left to rot. The cartoon on THIS LINK gives an idea of the frenzied crowds as they jostled for a position to see the fragile wreck go under the suspension bridge 127 years after she left Bristol. Janet Cutler stayed put, and got the shot she wanted, which showed the ravages of an 8,000 mile journey on an already dangerously deteriorated hulk.
There were shots of the broadgauge loco, The North Star, and stories of the chaos when broad gauge met narrow gauge... or any gauge met a gauge of a different size
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| Thankyou http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel |
Many shots focussed on the beauty of Brunel's structures - he was an architect of some skill, as well as an engineer. Brunel's famous suspension bridge wasn't actually built by Brunel. It was built after he died, as a memorial to the great man.
Luci Coles explained the passions, for both sculpture and the environment, behind Trail Recycled Art in the Landscape. Starcross History will recreate Captain George Peacock's The Swan of the Exe for this year's sculpture trail in Teignmouth. Luci talked about the involvement of schools and community groups, and businesses in the project. She spoke of the ability which art has to get a message across to everyone... but not everyone will go into an art gallery, so TrailArt has a universal impact. The message is about pollution, especially plastic pollution. The Waitrose sculpture will use materials that are not currently recycled, such as polystyrene.
Here's some sculptures from bygone TrailArt from The Trail Recycled Art in the Landscape website
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| Julia Vella Great Pacific Garbage Patch |
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| Michelle Greenwood-Brown Love Your Planet |
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| Fiona Campbell Spiked 1 |
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| Birthday cake - Karen Lockyear |
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