The Society for One-Place Studies is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in style with many friends:
#AllAboutThatPlace !!!
A huge VOTE OF THANKS to all the organisers
Here is the #SticklepathOne Countdown!
10 COMMANDMENTS
put up in the Wesleyan Chapel by Ellen Pearse 1866 at a cost of £12
9 SCHOOL
was built in Eighteen Seventy-NINE ! Weekly fee 9d for each child
8 MEN
borrow Tom Pearse’s Grey Mare. I be going’ wi’ Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley (Sticklepath celebrates the Grey Mare festival)
7 WATERWHEELS
were powered by a leat from the River Taw, running woollen/serge, grist/grain, and bone mills, as well as the Finch Foundry or Edge tool makers in Sticklepath
6 DECADES
Since the author was born and brought up in Sticklepath
5 QUAKER NAMES
are known, representing all the Friends buried in Sticklepath Quaker Burying ground
4 PARISHES
Sticklepath village was in THREE Parishes – Sampford Courtenay, South Tawton and Belstone until the 1980s when Sticklepath became a Civil Parish in its own right.
3 YEARS
since the Sticklepath One-Place Study was registered
2 CHAPELS and 2 PUBS
Wesleyan and Anglican Chapels in Sticklepath
The Devonshire Inn and the Taw River Inn
1 VILLAGE
#SticklepathOne
And One FANTASTIC FREE EVENT
#AllAboutThatPlace !!!
Tune in today from 7am or anytime over the next 3 weeks+ to listen to the talks, a new one released most daytime hours BST for the next 10 days.
STEP ONE: IF you haven’t yet ‘subscribed’ (no cost) https://www.subscribepage.com/allaboutthatplace
STEP TWO: To listen to the talks that have been released choose Facebook or YouTube
STEP THREE: Grab a coffee, or tea and biscuits, pick a talk and relax! Just 10-15 minutes each talk.
ENJOY!