Torquay Rotarians take trip to museum just for a change

Torquay Rotary members had a change from their usual schedule when they swapped a Monday lunchtime 'at home' for a visit to Newton Abbot Museum and a social evening at the Indian Eye restaurant.
Newton's museum moved to its newly converted church premises in 2020 and members enjoyed discovering and operating genuine railway signals, learning about Stoke Gabriel-born John Lethbridge's early 18th century diving machine, and admiring the impressive Tudor origin oak carving overmantle from the Sandford Orleigh manor house once occupied by George Templer.
Museum volunteer Tess Walker gave Rotarians a talk on the imaginative transformation of the old church into a thoroughly modern and reactive museum, to which entry is free.
The Torquay Rotarians' were also busy with the recent open air music festival at Lupton House, Churston, where a dozen or so members and friends led by Brian Davis staffed the main and disabled car parks for the duration of the event which featured Abba and Pink Floyd tribute bands.