Lovely Slums Talk for St Petrock's

 Dr C N Lovely – The Exeter Workmen's Dwellings Company

[Richard Holladay is] giving an illustrated talk at the Mint Methodist Church on Friday 6th April at 11am in the Main Worship Area. The cost is £3 per person but all proceeds will be donated to [St Petrock's] www.stpetrocks.org.uk, Exeter’s principal Homeless Charity and of course any additional donations towards this deserving Charity will be gratefully received.

[He is] anxious to attract as many persons as possible and would appreciate all and every effort... to publicise this event. 

...If you wish paper versions of the poster, (A4 or A5 – please state which and how many) please email, Richard Holladay, goldenhammerman@gmail.com

If you have difficulty printing out a copy (ies) please contact.

This is purely a personal venture and is slightly more personal Illustrated Talk than the ‘run of the mill’ Garton & King History Talk which some of you may have experienced.

Your help in displaying this poster and publicising this Talk is much appreciated.

Dr Lovely’s home and surgery in the 1920s was at Bouverie House, Magdalen Street, Exeter

Dr Charles Newton Lovely MD BS Durham
1864 -1947

Dr Charles Newton Lovely from Exeter Memories

The Great Western Railway

The stretch of the Great Western Railway from Powderham, through Starcross and on to Newton Abbot, is the most scenic on what railway enthusiasts dub  'God's Wonderful Railway'.

In 1846, when it was extended from Exeter, the first trains were steam trains. Isambard Kingdom Brunel oversaw the project to propel the trains from Exeter to Totnes with an innovative atmospheric system, invented by the Samuda brothers. There were 14 engine houses. Only the Starcross engine house has been preserved.

The Brunel Tower from the estuary. 2014 Steve Nosworthy

 There is a piece of the atmospheric pipe in the Great Western room at the Newton Abbot Town and Great Western Railway Museum.

Until the First World War, a forest of oak  stretched from Starcross to Haldon. The oak was cut down to make props for the trenches. A branch line brought the oak from Haldon.

link for this photograph of the Starcross siding

 Link for this 1955 photo of the Starcross siding

Starcross railway station used to have a roof across the tracks, and buildings on both sides of the track.

Link for this photo of Starcross railway station

Links

• Starcross Railway Station on wiki

• The Isambard Kingdom Brunel Portal 

•  The Atmospheric Railway on Exeter Memories

• The Atmospheric Railway from Starcross Fishing and Cruising Club 

• South Devon Engine Houses on wiki

Starcross Railway on the web

4909, Blakesley Hall, pictured between Starcross and Cockwood in July 1957. It was returning to Swindon from a works holiday for railway staff. Photo: Peter Gray.

BBC Devon Local History 24 September 2014

Page 40 in David Hey's collection: PHOTOGRAPHING DIESELS A final fling in the 1980s...
Many thanks to David Hey for allowing Starcross History to link to this image on page 40 of his acclaimed website

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A train at Dawlish, heading towards Exeter.

 The leading engine with the piston in the tube.


The Atmospheric Railway on Exeter Memories

Many thanks to the Exeter Memories website for allowing these 2 photographs and this content of their website to be linked on here