Thursday 30 April 2015

Cut feathers at the Starcross Celebration of Country Life.

Starcross History will be at the Celebration of Country Life event in Starcross this weekend: Saturday May 2nd and Sunday May 4th. Please bring items of interest to add to our collection on the day.

 We'll be selling our hard enamel badges (in Great Western Railway colours)  £10 for 1. £15 for 2. £20 for 4.


We will have; a display of some of the old implements which have been used on the land and also a photograph (the only one known to exist) of, and the story of, our inimitable Captain George Peacock, who designed The Swan of the Exe.
Read all about his remarkable Victorian folly HERE



Starcross History is going to replicate this ' wackin' gurt bird ' for this year's Trail Recycled Art in the Landscape  project in Teignmouth.


Our artwork will be based on an old dinghy, which will have a swan at the prow  - just like the original Swan of the Exe, which was launched in 1860. Well, we hope it will look just like a swan... and not a dead seagull...  All help and suggestions are welcome.


100s of feathers for this bird will have to be made, from plastic milk bottles, so please bring your empty plastic milk bottles. We'll be asking everyone's help to cut out some  more feathers. 
Perhaps you might like to put your name on the feathers you make? So that the names won't detract from the overall effect of white plumage, we'll ask you to please use a white marker-pen.



It promises to be a really traditional Bank Holiday weekend
Don't forget neighbouring  Kenton's MayDay Celebrations on the Monday 



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