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The last chance to see our exhibition of photos of decorated plaster ceilings will be Friday October 11th.
Friends of Totnes Museum
AUTUMN TALK
Underwater Surveying Operations for The Mary Rose 1975 - 2005
with guest speaker, Nigel Kelland
Totnes Methodist Church
44 Fore St, Totnes, TQ9 5RP
7.30pm, Thursday 10th October 2024
Members of the Friends of Totnes Museum £5
Non-Members £7
(No booking required, pay at the door)
Tea and Coffee included
Following the rediscovery of the wreck of the Mary Rose in 1967 the feasibility of salvage was a high priority. Whilst working as a marine geophysicist at British Petroleum, Nigel’s expertise was called upon and he became involved in surveying the archaeological site and the quest to raise the Mary Rose, as well as subsequent work over the years on the remains left on the sea bed. Get a real insight into the nuts and bolts of a complex archaeological and surveying operation.
Totnes Museum took part in National Heritage Open Days earlier in September and showed a new display of photographs of some of the beautiful 16th and 17th century decorated plaster ceilings in Fore Street and High Street in Totnes.
The exhibition will be in the Museum until Friday October 4th.
The main display is upstairs, but there are some photographs and information downstairs in our accessible gallery.
If you're lucky enough to live in a house with one of these lovely ceilings, perhaps you could open the curtains and shine a light on the ceilings so people in the street below can see them.
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