THOMAS NEWCOMEN CELEBRATIONS 2012

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THOMAS NEWCOMEN CELEBRATIONS 2012

NEWCOMEN 300 CELEBRATIONS  Run up Events 
Feb 16th               Thomas Newcomen Book launch 5.30 pm Community Bookshop           

Feb/May                Royal Avenue Gardens restructured/re-signing                                
                              Engine House Display Boards & Painting & refurb.                      

March     29th        First Buses to Park & Ride painted with Newcomen logo           

May 22nd              Media Launch at refurbished Engine House                                                                               Steam Heat Dance Routine 
                                                                            
May/Sept               Bridgetown Brewery/Newcomen Atmospheric Ale                          

July 2/July 30     Exhibitions at Dartmouth Library & Flavel Centre                            

Celebration week Activities for July 9 – 13                                                                                                
1.     Monday, July 9.   Children’sDay                                                                                                                                   
Dartmouth Players ‘From Flood Defend’         7.30 pm at Flavel                  2.     Tuesday July10,         Dartmouth Players: ‘From Flood Defend’      7.30 pm at Flavel                  3.     Wednesday July 11,Film on the Industrial Revolution/talk by Adam Hart-Davis at Flavel DG 4.     Thursday July 12,         3.00 Celebration Service at St Saviours Church                                                                                   7.00 Kingswear train/boat ride & reception for NS + Mayor                        5.  Friday July 13     10.00 Newcomen Society Laying Chaplets at Memorial Stone                                               11.15 Lecture 1 Brian Corfield “Newcomen the Man”              2.00 Lecture 2 David Hulse “The Newcomen Engine”4.00 Lecture 3 Prof David Perrett “The Archaeology of the N Engine”                                                6.     Saturday July 14         Steam Fair by South Hams Vintage Steam Club                                           

Dates

• 09th Jul 2012 - 13th Jul 2012