2020- A Year of Great Change
- by charlottee
- in Museum
- posted February 17, 2021
It’s fair to say that 2020 has not been an easy year for the world but in the spirit of positivity I thought it might be an opportune time to look back at the amazing progress Newton’s...
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Behind the Scenes Part 3
- by charlottee
- in Museum
- posted June 21, 2020
At last we are up to date, having taken you on the journey from an empty disused church to a nearly finished community building. Today we have some photos taken last week of the inside of Newton’s...
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Behind the Scenes 2
- by charlottee
- in Museum
- posted June 21, 2020
A skeleton of scaffolding, steel beams and wooden struts has been developing inside the four walls of Newton’s Place, all clad with layers of plasterboard, plaster (some of it Lime) and paint. With the dedicated documentation by...
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Behind the Scenes at Newton’s Place
- by charlottee
- in Museum
- posted June 21, 2020
Another two views behind the scenes for you all. A fascinating mystery that you might be able to help with and the chance to see a favourite from the old museum – the railway signals – coming...
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Local Characters – Reminiscences of Newton Abbot 1905
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted December 13, 2019
The following is a transcript of handwritten notes made by Mr. Frank Zealley in the 1940s; reminiscing about street life in Newton at the turn of the 20th Century Many local characters and Hawkers of interest, were well...
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What was an Ex- President of the Transitional Government of the USA, Doing in Newton Abbot in 1780, Three Years Before the American War of Independence was Over?
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted December 4, 2019
Henry Laurens was of Huguenot stock whose ancestors moved to the America in the late 1600’s, arriving in New York, then settling in Charlestown South Carolina. Laurens served in the Militia and rose to the rank of...
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Eating and Drinking in Newton Abbot in the Swinging Sixties
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted November 20, 2019
I often hear the complaint that Newton Abbot shopping centre ‘is all charity and coffee shops’. Obviously, charity shops are a relatively recent phenomenon, but wondered what was available in the “days of yore” say 1960, where...
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Wycliffe Egginton – Water Colour Artist 1875-1951 Headmaster of the Newton Abbot College of Art 1908-1919
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted October 9, 2019
The above monochrome (copied from The Sphere 17th May 1913) is of a Watercolour that was displayed in Gallery 1 of the 145th Exhibition of The Royal Academy in May 1913. The Art press described Egginton’s work...
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Floodlit Football-Newton Abbot Hosted One of the First Games.
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted September 18, 2019
The first Association Football Game to be Floodlit was on the 14th October 1878 at Bramall Lane, when a crowd of 20,000 fans attended. Bramall Lane is now the home of Sheffield United, but at the time may...
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The MacKrell Almshouses
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted September 11, 2019
I’ve been guilty of it myself, calling these buildings the Mackerel Almshouses, but I’ve just found out the correct name is MacKrell Almshouses, I thought obviously named after a chap from Scotland, but I was wrong again....
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