Newton Abbot Museum is helping a digital archive uncover a little-known story about British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

The Mixed Museum is visiting Newton Abbot on Thursday (January 30) to discover more about the Coleridge-Taylor’s trip to the town in 1902 when he conducted Newton Abbot Choral Society’s silver jubilee performance of his most famous work, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast.

Researchers from The Mixed Museum will visit the Alexandra Hall, now the cinema, where the concert was held, and Glossops the Stationers, now the Clock Tower Coffee Shop, where the tickets were sold.

They will share their findings in a three-part podcast focusing on the social history of train travel and Coleridge-Taylor’s experiences as a Black mixed-race middle-class man in Britain at the turn of the century.