Totnes Museum Study Centre

Recent acquisitions

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The study centre archive was founded over 100 years ago by the Totnes Antiquarian Society, and we are still adding to it:.

Recent acquisitions include:

Book: 'From Baltic Sea to to Baltic Wharf', the story of Reeves' timber yard.

CD: Pigot's 1823 Devon Directory

Ledger of  S. Hannaford,  boot repairer of Fore Street 1920s-1940s

Sale Catalogue Sharpham Estate 1940

Deeds and leases of NO. 24 Fore Street

Book:  Totnes and Bridgetown Races by Peter Wakeham

Large collection of books on and relating to Charles Babbage

Over 200 photographs of Charles Babbage's drawings re. calculating engine.

Babbage's Scribbling Book on microfiche and microfilm

Various papers, articles and slides re.Babbage

1796 indenture. Lease of house and three plots of land against the castle wall.

Original plans and drawings for 'The Croft' Bridgetown Hill, 1935

Plus much more...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18/11/2010