Showing posts with label The English Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The English Civil War. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Cataloguing the Starcross Archive - Wednesday 16th May

Meet on Wednesday evening, 7.30pm at St. Paul's for a first attempt at sorting out a catalogued archive from the materials we have.
There are photographs and maps of the area. We will discuss other types of material we could collect.
First World War hero Leonard Reggie Stephens at Starcross schoolStarcross pub token from The Jolly Sailor

Starcross Rail ticket June 1935

Greetings from Starcross


Benjamin Donn's map 1765

Fire in The Strand

Brunel's Atmospheric Railway book

Jim Shapter's Roman amphora found in mouth of Exe

musket balls from the civil war found in Starcross


Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Musket Balls found locally

What might look like just another lump of estuary mud could be something really interesting. Here's a wonderful collection of musket balls found around Starcross. The sovereign shows the size of them. Powderham remained a Royalist stronghold until it fell in 1646; after the roundheads attacked from the river.

THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR: THE SIEGE OF POWDERHAM 1645 - 1646