The project was designed to stimulate the interest of local residents and visitors in the Maritime Heritage of Teignmouth. We wanted to focus on the following aspects which, we felt, would compliment our Festival. They are all areas that we had not yet explored and they formed an integral part of our overall aim, which was to make people aware of Teignmouth’s rich Maritime Heritage. These topics are:

• Teignmouth’s links with Newfoundland and the Grand Banks cod-fishing industry.
• Links with Pike Ward Esq. and the Newfoundland whalebone-arches on the promenade (until the mid 1900’s).
• Teignmouth’s Ship Building industry especially, the Morgan Giles firm.
• Ships that sailed from Teignmouth and were lost in the Napoleonic Wars.
• The Port of Teignmouth’s historic links with the Granite quarrying on dartmoor and the many historic buildings (including London Bridge) that were constructed from dartmoor Granite, transported via the Port of Teignmouth. Also the links to the Ball Clay industry. Ball clay is still transported from this thriving port.
• Research information on ships that have been wrecked off Teignmouth (including one investigated by TV’s ‘Time Team’).
• The sacking of Teignmouth on 26th July 1690- this was the last invasion of English soil.
• The Viking invasions in 1001 BC- mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.
• Explore the links with Admiral Sir Edward Pellew (1804) and Bitton House.
• Teignmouth to Shaldon Ferry (operating since the 13th Century).