Calling in on Mr Babbage - Totnes Museum

By: Richard Wyatt
Added: 17 August 2011

Totnes is due for massive exposure on two BBC channels tomorrow night - Thursday the 18th of August. On BBC 2 at 9pm it will be the last of four towns across the Uk to feature in a series presented by geographer Nicholas Crane.

However, earlier in the evening on BBC1, the town's Museum and famous Brutus Stone will be included in a regional news feature on Spotlight. Reporter Emma Ruminski and her cameraman Alec Colyer have been following the River Dart from source to sea and reach Totnes.  I gave Emma a look around our room dedicated to Charles Babbage the Victorian computer pioneer, and Heritage Officer Alan Langmaid took them to the Brutus Stone in Fore Street to hear more about our 'Trojan' ancestors. Shame about the rain - but good fun nevertheless.

First picture inside the museum.