Heritage Grants
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Topsham
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Topsham Museum Society
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£261000
The project focused on building an extension to Topsham Museum to house four historic local boats and providing access for the public.
The museum extension has also been used to display objects relating to Captain George Peacock, a prominent 16th century maritime innovator.
The four boats are:
- ‘The Cygnet’, a unique 15-foot long craft designed and built around 1865, in the shape of a Swan, by Captain George Peacock. It resided at Starcross and was used as the tender to Peacock’s larger yacht ‘Swan’.
- ‘Ruby’, built in 1902, a 20-foot long example of an early 20th century rowed Exe Salmon Boat
- ‘Exe lugger’, an unnamed 20-foot long craft used on the estuary for fishing and the carrying of ‘market goods’ and passengers
- ‘Skiff’, a 19-foot long light-weight craft used on the River Exe and Exeter Canal in the early 1900s as a recreational boat, and the only example locally of this type of vessel
The new extension was also designed to provide room for an improved reception area with audio loop, a passenger lift and improved access to the museum from the adjacent garden. Other improvements included enhancing visitor information as a whole and further developing outreach work.