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MELVILLE PROPOSAL • ROUND 1

Melville

Welcome to my vision for the Melville Heritage Trail.
A perfect balance of accessible content and quality arts and heritage,
producing a trail to be proud of that really brings the area to life.
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Melville Heritage Trail

Welcome to my vision for the Melville Heritage Trail.
I’m sharing imagery here to make it easier to share more widely in the community, and because I think that this really gives a good sense of what I have in mind.
There is plenty of room for collaboration with the community to provide invaluable local knowledge and expertise when it comes to:
- content and context (which pieces of history to include and why), and
- the final route (where the trail goes)

I would love to work with the community on these aspects, and I hope I can provide beautiful artwork and a theme that draws it all together for you.
Proposed trail stops are numbered for clarity, but not shown in any particular order:

1. Donovan; ‘Catch the Wind’
Potential site: The Clipper
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2. Charles Dickens; Pickwick Papers (although I have gone with his wonderful quote about the theatre itself)
Potential location: Theatre; Abbey Road
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3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning; de Profundis (written after her brother died in Babbacombe Bay)
​Potential location: View point; or elsewhere seawards
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4, Annie Kennie / Suffragettes
​Potential location: theatre, or Abbey Rd
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5. Alfred Bulwer, Lord Lytton
​Potential location: Warren Road
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6. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Potential location: viewpoint; seaward / Torre Abbbey connection
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7. Rabbits and Torre Abbey reference
​Potential location: flexible ( name of both Warren Road & Waldon Hill)
8. Waldon Castle
​Potential location: flexible
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9. Agatha Christie; most famous literary resident; another link to Torre Abbey (poisons garden)
​Potential location: flexible
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10. The Melville community; - placing the trail in the context of the community and drawing in the mural
​Potential location: mural/car park / triangle area.
(The car park area might be a good place to site the information  board or a second information board)
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