The Branscombe Project
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Working the Stones of Branscombe: John Torrance
Branscombe people have always made the most of what the local geology had to offer: flint for prehistoric tools, sandstone for building material, chalk for lime-
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Investigating Landscape History
Chris Woodruff on AONBs and funding for community projects which celebrate the identity of an area.
Phil Planel, (Parishscapes Project) on addressing the small scale and local, drawing on a range of different resources, from maps and documents to the memories of local people.
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Akhenaten, Mystery of the Missing Paraoh
Lucia Gahlin
A major innovator in art and religion, his memory was erased by later rulers.The discovery of his great capital city at Amarna has shed some light, but also resulted in lots of ‘tall stories ’.
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Bats
Ian Crowe
On his findings whilst working with the AONB and Natural England on the local bat population.
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Branscombe Postcards 100 years: Part 2
Geoff Squire.
Read the illustrated talks here: Part 2 Part 3
(Also the launch of: The Shooting at Branscombe Old Pits by Barbara Farquharson & John Torrance)
2006
Branscombe: a biodiversity hotspot. Nature Conservation on Gays Farm
Ian Crowe
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New Discoveries, Stonehenge and Durrington Walls
Mike Parker Pearson
2008
New Discoveries on Easter Island
Sue Hamilton
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Down Memory Lane: Geoff Squire
Century of Branscombe Postcards: Part 1
Geoff Squire was one of Stanley Squires', the village school-
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Great Trees of East Devon
Kate Tobin
2007
¼ Billion Years of Local Geology
Ramues Gallois
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Tom Lethbridge of Hole House, Ghost Hunter
Terry Welbourn
2006
Hydraulic Rams & Dewponds
Sue Dymond
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John Perryman: Murdered by Persons Unknown
Barbara Farquharson & John Torrance
Drama documentary with large cast of village luminaries.
2008
Archaeology and the East Devon Landscape
Chris Tilley
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Geology Matters!!!
Mike Green
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Branscombe’s Lost Landscapes -
Sue Dymond
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The Beer Quarries
John Scott
2007
First Light -
Mark Edmonds
2006
Orlando Hutchinson, Antiquarian at work in Branscombe
Barbara Farquharson:
Drama documentary with Oliver Bernard
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The Wreck of the Napoli
Barbara Farquharson
It is two and a half years since the Napoli unceremoniously landed at Branscombe; experience and memory are beginning to turn into history.
Read the illustrated talk here
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| Geoff Squire |
| John Torrance |
| Unpublished Papers |
| Postcard Archive |
| Photographic Archive |
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