Meet in St Paul's Church. Wednesday 10th May 2017. 7:30pm
This
meeting will continue to look at the stories unearthed by the Villages
in Action project to unearth the history of 8 Devon villages. The
Starcross research material has been given to the Villages in Action
Artists, who are hard at work creating a Villages in Action happening...
What will it be? What will a playwright, an actor, a visual artist and a
singer-songwriter create?
A
fantastic amount of material has been unearthed - but the enthusiasm to
discover even more Starcross Stories won't end with this project.
Villages in Action will put everything on a special website, but what
else can we do?
Could we publish ebooks aimed at the Key Stages of the National Curriculum? Should we aim for a hard copy of a book?
Unlike an ordinary village, Starcross's history has universal appeal. We have evidence of Romans using the river. There were Roundhead v Cavalier battles fought on our shores. The remarkable Swan Boat is still within living memory, and its Victorian designer was the redoubtable Victorian; Captain George Peacock. Also within living memory is the Royal Western Counties Hospital, with its wonderful innovations for the education of idiots. Then there's the scenic Great Western railway line; still dubbed God's Wonderful Railway. And we can't forget Brunel's Atmospheric Caper
The online British Newspaper Archive and the Devon Heritage Centre in Sowton continue to yield more tales to augment the knowledge from some of Starcross's more senior residents, and caches of documents and photographs from places which include: Starcross School, St Paul's Church and the village pubs.
Could we publish ebooks aimed at the Key Stages of the National Curriculum? Should we aim for a hard copy of a book?
Unlike an ordinary village, Starcross's history has universal appeal. We have evidence of Romans using the river. There were Roundhead v Cavalier battles fought on our shores. The remarkable Swan Boat is still within living memory, and its Victorian designer was the redoubtable Victorian; Captain George Peacock. Also within living memory is the Royal Western Counties Hospital, with its wonderful innovations for the education of idiots. Then there's the scenic Great Western railway line; still dubbed God's Wonderful Railway. And we can't forget Brunel's Atmospheric Caper
The online British Newspaper Archive and the Devon Heritage Centre in Sowton continue to yield more tales to augment the knowledge from some of Starcross's more senior residents, and caches of documents and photographs from places which include: Starcross School, St Paul's Church and the village pubs.
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