Opportunity to Take Part in People’s Museum
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted June 21, 2019
The People’s Museum. The new museum will be brimming full of objects that share the stories of the town over decades. Each object on display is special and holds its own tale. We want to find out what objects the local community treasure and what stories can...
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Baby Farming in Newton
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted June 7, 2019
In the Victorian era infant mortality was very high; of the 800,000 births recorded in England in 1880, about 120,000 died before their first Birthday. Of these deaths about 60,000 were due to inadequate starch-based diets, cornflower and water etc. 20,000 from diseases, such...
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1858 the Year of the Great Stink – Newton Style
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted May 29, 2019
The Great Stink was the elegant name given to terrible smell that pervaded central London, during July and August 1858. It had been a particularly hot summer, which exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent present on the banks of...
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Reminiscences of Old Newton Abbot
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted May 24, 2019
Info for this article taken from East and South Devon Advertiser 3rd October 1896 In August 1896 a certain Mr W Roberts on his retirement as an Assistant Overseer, was invited to relate his memories of Newton Abbot. He was especially interesting, due to having...
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The Miner’s Lamp
- by naadmin337
- in Museum
- posted May 20, 2019
Di Nicholls wished that the Miners Lamp presented to her in 1985 by the Miners of the Treharris Deep Navigation Mine, should be donated to the Newton Abbot & GWR Museum. This is the story behind the Miner’s Lamp. In 1983 Ian MacGregor was appointed...
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