Wednesday, March 14th - Mosaics and Horses

The next meeting of Starcross History has been re-arranged to be on Wednesday, March 14th, 7:30pm in St Paul's Church.

 Alma Harding and Joanne Bickel will lead a workshop to create:

•  mosaics; to mark a Starcross History Trail
• Horses from rubbish; for our 2018 entry in Teignmouth's Trail Recycled Art in the Landscape

They'll show you how easy it is to create outdoor mosaics which will last a few years. There will be mosaics in various stages of production with which you will be invited to help, or you can bring your own design(s) to work on.

There will be some horses made from all sorts of stuff-which-would-be-thrownaway:
Christmas lights that don't work make wacky manes&tails.

Mousedrawn Horse

 
A broken plastic washing basket might get bent to make a saddle.
Plastic stuff  won in Christmas crackers will add colour

Will you start/make a horse/horse's head/something to do with Horse - and bring it along? Any size - but your sculptures will be open to all the elements on Teignmouth seafront for the summer SO they must be secure and will have to be securely anchored down using fence posts with metal drive-in spikes.

T.R.A.I.L. is a protest about wasted resources. That our horse sculptures look out to sea  will speak of the galloping plastic pollution of the 5 oceans.

This meet will also be the agm, so copies of the constitution and the chair's report will be available. Perhaps there might be some volunteers to take on a committee rôle or 3?

Information please - Trinniman

Starcross Station - Steve Nosworthy

 

 

Good Afternoon

I wonder if you could help me?

I'm researching my family tree and I've found that my grandmother ( Mary Jane Harriet Trinniman) was born in Starcross in 1882, the family lived in Church Street, I don't have a number but I think the house may have been called Rose Cottage. 

My great uncle Alfred Trinniman lived at 3 Coronation Terrace, he died in 1936, and I believe he's buried in St Paul's Churchyard.

Another great uncle, Charles Frederick Bowles Trinniman, worked aged 16 in 1893 as a porter for Great Western Railway at Starcross station.

Would you have any photos of the station around that era?

Many thanks

DATE AND TIME TO BE RE-ARRANGED Mosaic Mayhem

The next meet of Starcross History will be on

Wednesday 14th February, (which is also Ash Wednesday AND Valentine's Day) at 7:30pm in St Paul's Church.

DATE AND TIME TO BE RE-ARRANGED

There is no charge for membership and there is no charge for admission, but we need to cover expenses, so PLEASE BRING A RAFFLE PRIZE. 

Points on the Starcross History Trail will be marked with mosaics, so this meet will have a mosaic workshop, to get people interested in the project, and to show them how easy it is to make a weatherproof mosaic.
The workshop will be led by Alma Harding and Joanne Bickel. Materials including tiles and bottlecaps will be used on a wood base.

Ideas for the points on the history trail need to be followed up with a site visit, and permission sought to site a relevant mosaic in a prominent place.

If you have your own idea for a Starcross History mosaic, please get in touch so that we can tell you what materials you'll need to bring, and save a table for you. Outdoor mosaics can be on wood bases, on paving slabs or plantpots.

We'll also look at horse sculpture from plastic rubbish. Redundant Christmas lights make great manes and tails!

Our this year's exhibit on the Teignmouth Recycled Art in the Landscape sculpture trail will include this mosaic of a forge. The tiles need grouting, and the wood needs to be waterproofed with yacht varnish.

Starcross History's whole TRAIL exhibit will be titled Horse and we will add as many horse sculptures as we can. The sculptures will be made from plastics that are not usually recycled, and that will end up in landfill. Ideas for sculpting horses from rubbish from the internet: Sayaka Kajita Ganz uses all sorts of found plastic to make incredibly graceful horses

Sayaka Kajita Ganz uses all sorts of found plastic to make incredibly graceful horses

Coathanger Horse 2014 by Miriam Amery-Gale

Miriam Amery-Gale made her marvellous Coathanger Horse, in 2014.


This meet will also be the AGM. Maybe someone else will volunteer to be the chair, treasurer, secretary, projects manager, publicity officer, co-ordinater for schools, or chief researcher? Copies of the constitution will be available, and suggested amendments voted on. The chair will read the report about what Starcross History has achieved since its last AGM, and what its plans are.