History Trail Quiz Sheet

 
The history group are to have an informal meet tonight in a private house to discuss:

a) various aims and activities

b) financial considerations and insurance limitations

c) recruitment of new members

They hope to put together a village History Trail quiz sheet, provisionally based on place names and their origins.

 

Here's a list of street names in Starcross from Geographic.org

Each street name links through to a photograph and map

• Bishops Close
• Bonhay Close
• Bonhay Road
• Brickyard Lane
• Brunel Road
• Chapple Close
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Cookson's Road
• Counties Crescent
• Courtenay Close
• Courtenay Terrace
• Drew's Close
• Elm Court
• Exeter Road
• Generals Close
• Generals Lane
• Hamilton Grove
• Heywood Drive
• Longfield Estate
• Mowlish Lane
• New Road
• Parker's Road
• Royal Way
• Sercombes Gardens
• Staplake Lane
• Staplake Rise
• Staplake Road
• Swan Road
• The Strand
• Well Street
• Western Drive

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?

The Starcross History Trail

There are so many hidden gems of history around Starcross; enough for a walking tour or 3.

To organise The Starcross History Trail, we first of all need a list of the interesting places and buildings in and around Starcross. If the owners of the buildings consent to being part of our trail, then we can gather information, photographs and documents for each location, with permission for publication in a booklet titled The Starcross History Trail.  The amount of text&images for each entry could be limited to, say, a single sheet of A4. The booklets will go on sale, and there will be an online version here; for those of you who prefer using your mobile phone to find your way around.

• Researchers neeeded please

Guided walks could be arranged - Starcross History could host people from other local history groups.

• Volunteers wanted please

Another aspect of  The Starcross History Trail will be a Dartmoor letterbox-type container at some of the locations.  We will request property owners to provide a rubber stamp depicting their building. They could make it freely available by placing it somewhere easily accessible, or make it available at times convenient to themselves. Also, a logbook for enthusiasts to sign/ stamp with their personal stamp would be excellent.

• Here's a few ideas we could work on. Some of the buildings have been demolished. Please comment below to add more ideas.

Please send information with permission to publish to starcross.history@gmail.com
Cheers.

• Starcross Primary School
• St Paul's Church.
• Starcross Royal British Legion
• Staplake House 
• The Brunel Tower
• The old police house
• Regents House
• The Red House
• Fishermen's cottages in Staplake Lane
• Fishermen's cottages on The Strand
• Kenbrook
• The Assembly Rooms
• The Royal Western Counties Hospital
• Southbrook House
• Starcross Pier
• Starcross Railway Station
• The Alexandra Arms
• The Atmospheric Railway
• The Galleon
• The Ship
• The Anchor
• Grove Cottage
•   Harpridge
• Northbrook
• The Vicarage
• Langdale
• Ilex House
• Exeleigh
• The Bell House
• Cofford Farm
• Exe Nurseries
• Venn Bridge Farm
• Style Farm
• Tiverlands
• Rose Cottage
• Staplake Farm
• Well St - where were the wells?
• The Forge
• Northbrook
• The site of the market
• The slaughterhouse
• The WW11 Home Guard lookout post on Easter Hill
• Ashes Quay
• Woolcomb's Island
• Bronze Age ring ditches at Powderham
• Iron Age hut circles at Powderham
• Powderham Castle
• Mowlish Manor