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 have been the home ground of The...
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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. The Mackrell surname is French, introduced into...
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A Bizarre Accident Involving the Duke of Edinburgh, an Old Soldier, an Elephant, Newton Abbot Station and Wolborough Churchyard
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted August 2, 2019
When I say the Duke of Edinburgh, I don’t mean the present incumbent, although he had an accident recently, I am referring to Prince Alfred the second son of Queen Victoria. At the age of 12 he joined the Royal Navy and qualified in...
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The Missing St Leonard’s Tower Model
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted July 22, 2019
This low-resolution photograph taken from a Newspaper article in 1908, shows Mr Roberts aged 91, former Wolborough Parish Clerk, with a model of St Leonards Tower and Chapel. Mr Roberts said that he had been baptised in the chapel in 1817/18. The question is...
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William Fuller & Sons Courtenay Nurseries – Queen Street
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted July 8, 2019
W. Fuller & Sons – Courtenay Nurseries –Queen Street – 1927 W. Fuller & Sons – Courtenay Nurseries – Queen Street – c1900 (The Street Numbering changed sometime between 1870 and 1900, probably due to additional properties being built at the Railway end of...
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