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Saturday Talk: The Fatal Shore – The Transportation of South Devon Convicts to Tasmania - See more a

oin us for the first of our brand new series of Saturday lectures and hear the shocking story of the transportation of a Torquay boy, a Brixham carpenter and a Shaldon fisherman as convicts to Tasmania in the early 19th century, and find out the part Devon and its people played in the treatment of those imprisoned there with insights into the terror inflicted on the 65,000 convicts shipped across the ocean to Tasmania. The talk will be given by Phil Badcott, local historian and Trustee of Torqua
Start time 11:00 am. Tickets are £5 each, available from the Torquay Museum Reception or call 01803 293975
Torquay Museum Devon TQ1 1HG
Sat 28 Jan 2017
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