Lustleigh Village Hall

Lustleigh Society

Email lustleighsec@gmail.com
Website http://www.lustleigh-society.org.uk/
The Lustleigh Society was formed in 1978 as a society for lectures on local history. In the years following, much material relating to the history of the village was donated to the society and stored in the village reading room, located in the Church House, an ancient building in the centre of the village. In the mid 1980’s this collection relocated to a small room in the Old Vestry, until 2006 when a larger room within the same building became available. There followed an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund – and other funding bodies – to completely renovate the room to archival storage standard. The archive re-opened in April 2009 having been completely reorganised and re-catalogued. The Archives of Lustleigh provide an important insight into the development of a village situated on the edge of Dartmoor, which has origins in prehistory.

Events from this organiser

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  • Lustleigh Society Coffee Morning

    Meeting Room/Kitchen

    Including paintings by Frederick Foot, with a short talk by Peter Mason. Click title to read more...

  • Lustleigh Society Talk

    Main Hall/Kit

    Beryl Trist Newman – the Lustleigh artist who ‘lived to paint’       Peter Mason Beryl Trist Newman (1906–91), with paintings in

  • Lustleigh Society Talk

    Main Hall/Kit

    Plant Hunters and Pioneers                                                     Caradoc Doy Over several generations from before 1808, the Veitch family and their plant hunters introduced

  • Lustleigh Society Talk

    Main Hall/Kit

    A Teenager’s Boer War:  A talk by Paul Rimmer

    At 18 years old, the youngest officer on active service in the Boer War (1899–1902), Vernon Kyrke’s experiences are told through his letters and photographs. Plus Lustleigh’s response to the war and why a statue in Exeter upset the people of Crediton.

  • Lustleigh Society Talk

    Main Hall/Kit

    Sins as Red as Scarlet: A talk by Janet Few
    As late as 1682, three impoverished women from Bideford were hanged in Exeter, condemned to death for the crime of witchcraft. At the dawn of the Age of Reason how did intolerance and antagonism in a prosperous Devon trading and fishing port erupt in this trial and execution?

  • Lustleigh Society Talk

    Main Hall/Kit

    Dartmoor: A celebration of its people, places and wildlife Andrew Cooper
    From the sub-arctic wastes of the mid-winter high moor to people living in the most iconic wild worked landscape in Britain, featuring locals and celebrities, set against a background of astonishing natural beauty, a wealth of prehistory and abundance of wildlife – a popular speaker returns.