Sunday 20 October 2024

Celebrating The Restoration of The Peacock Cookson Memorial

The Starcross History Society will meet in St Paul's Church on Saturday, 9th November from 10.30 until 12.30.
ADMISSION FREE
but we will have a collection pot to cover expenses 

Timetable:
10.30-11.15 
Presentation and discussion in St Paul's Church   on the monuments and memorials in the Churchyard and the War Memorial outside the station.
Two short videos:    
Starcross monuments and memorials with a major focus on the Church 
 Captain George Peacock

11.15-11.45
 Refreshments 

11.45-12.20
 Viewing of Monuments and Memorials in St. Paul’s Church andChurchyard

12.20
 Revd. E. Patrick Parkes: Commemoration of the restored Peacock-Cookson memorial in the Churchyard. 
The broken cross on top of this stepped, pink marble monument, reminds us of the life cut short of Christopher Denys Peacock Cookson, 1926-1944. The young Lieutenant  died In action in WWII at Westkapelle,  Walcheren and was buried at sea. He was the great grandson of  Captain George Peacock.


(Captain Peacock, explorer and inventor, retired to Regent's House in Starcross, from where, in 1860, he commissioned his pleasure yacht in the form of a Swan, which was moored near to Starcross Pier in the Exe Estuary )

An engraving of The Swan of the Exe from The Illustrated London News, October 30 1860 https://www.devonperspectives.co.uk/swan_of_the_exe.html



Please note that 
The Starcross Remembrance Sunday service is on the following day 
St. PAUL’S CHURCH, STARCROSS, Remembrance Day Service
Sunday 10th November, 10.00

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