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A site map of Exeter Memories

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A

ABC/Savoy Cinema
Aerial photos of Exeter
Airport - including Haldon
Airport Photo Essay
Air Race - the Circuit of Britain Air Race passes through Whipton.
AJW Motor Cycles
Alphington - a history
Areas of Exeter - links to the political and social areas of Exeter
Atmospheric Railway - between Exeter and Newton Abbot

B

Babbage, Charles - father of the computer
Ball, Alan - World Cup winning footballer
Balloon Ascent 1786 the first
Balloon Ascent 1848 an interesting tale
Bampfylde House
Bastin, Cliff - Exeter, Arsenal and England footballer
Battle of Pinhoe Vikings besiege Pinhoe
Beach Brothers - floor suppliers
Beatles at the ABC the groups three shows in Exeter
Bedford House, Circus and Street
Beer House Act 1830
Bell, Stephen - mountaineer born in Exeter
Bishop Blackall School history
  Bishop Blackall School - Olive Nibb's memories
Bishops of Exeter - a list
Black Death reaches Exeter
Blackaller Weir - and Head Weir
Blitz / bombing of Exeter
   Blitz / bombing - personal memories
   Blitz poem - written in 1943
Blitz casualties - list of those killed
Blue, Rabbi Lionel - writer and radio commentator
Bodley and Co - iron foundry
Bodley, Sir Thomas - founder of the Bodlein Library, Oxford
Boer War Volunteers - a list
Boniface, Saint - Patron Saint of Germany
Bridges of Exeter
Breweries
Brice, Andrew - 18th century journalist
Brickworks
Broadgate
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom - engineer
Buller, General Redvers - Zulu and Boar War veteran
   Buller's statue
Buses - a history and photo essay
Buskers and street entertainment

C

Canal Basin at Haven Banks
Canal and Quay - a history
Canal - Exeter & Crediton - archeaological evidence
Catacombs
Cathedral
Cathedral Close
Cattle Market
Cemeteries - some histories
Chambers, Wilfrid Lawson - lost mariner
Cholera 1832
Churches Cinemas all of Exeter's and Topsham's known current and historic cinemas
Cinemas - Margaret Ball's memories
Civil War - the sieges of Exeter 1643 to 1646
Coade, Eleanor - inventor of Coade Stone
Colleges
Exeter College
Collins, David - Governor of Tasmania
Collings, Paul - publican and Waterloo veteran
Commerce
Cooper, Tommy - comedian
Cornish and Co - outfitters
Countess Wear
Crime reports - from the newspapers
Custom House

D

Danes Castle
Debenhams - or Bobby's
Debenhams last sale - 20th September 2007
Defoe, Daniel - writes of Exeter during his visit in 1727
Deller's Cafe interior illustration
Devon and Dorset Regiment the last parade
Dickens, Charles - Victorian writer
Drake, Sir Francis - Elizabethan sea captain
Duel - last in Devon 1833
Duryard

E

Eland the stationers
Electricity Generation - a history of electricity in Exeter
Exe Bridge
Executed at Exeter - a list from 1285 to 1943
Exeter City FC
Exeter Folk - photographs of Exeter folk and friends
Exeter's name
Exeter Water Company - including the Water Engine and James Golsworthy
Exe Island - a history
Express and Echo - brief history
Exwick - a history
Exwick - Mike Ewing's memories
Exwick Floods - Mike Ewing's memories
Exwick Mills - Exwick Mill and Lower Mill, a history

F

Falcons - a history of the speedway
Falcons crash barrier
Famous Exeter People
Film of Exeter - see Video on the site
Fiennes, Celia - journal of her visit 1698
Firms of Exeter
First Fleet - convicts from Exeter
First World War
Floods in St Thomas 1960 includes the building of the flood channel and gates
Flood Gates - Video of them working
Freemen of the City

G

Garton and King - ironmongers and foundry
Gasworks - Exe Island and Haven Banks
Gaumont Palace Cinema now Mecca Bingo
Gendall, John - artist
Gendall Grave
Glass House - Countess Wear bottle factory
Graves - selected graves and their stories
Great War - Exeter's four years of war
Green, James - County Surveyor
Greenslades - coaches
Guildhall
Guildhall, bronze story of the bronze in Guildhall Centre

H

Hardy, Rev T B., VC, MC, DSO
Hart and Moist - the South Devon Pottery
Haven Banks
Heavitree Cricket Club
Heavitree Hospital
Harry Hems - stone and wood carver
HMS Exeter
HMS Exeter's crew given the Freedom of the City 1940
HMS Exeter's crew given the Freedom of the City 2006
HMS Exeter - photo of model in the White Ensign Club/Trinity Church
HMS Exeter - letter home from released POW
Hilliard, Nicholas - miniature portrait painter
Hillscourt
Historic Buildings - includes modern buildings of note and interesting places
Historic Events
Hospitals - histories
Hotels both historic and contemporary
Hooker, Richard - theologian
Hooker - statue
Horse trams
Hoskins, Prof W G - historian
House that Moved includes the video
House that moved - Dick Passmore's memories
Housing - unique photos of old and condemned housing 1962

I

Ice-Factory - report on it burning down
Industry - commercial and industrial businesses
Inns

J

Jane, John Frederick Thomas - founder of Jane's Fighting Ships

K

Karno, Fred - impressario
Kastners Garage
Kemp, Gene - children's author
Kingdon, Kent - cabinet maker and mueum benefactor
Samuel and Iron Sam Kingdon - merchant and iron foundry owner

L

Latimer, Thomas - editor of the Western Times
Leats of Exe Island
Led Zeppelin rock band
Lee, John 'Babbacombe' the man they couldn't hang
Leofric, Bishop - last Saxon Bishop of Exeter
Lieutenant Laponotiere re-enactment of a famous journey
Lifeboat Exeter parades its new lifeboat 1866
Links to other sites
Livery Dole
London Inn Square
Lorries - a photo essay

M

Maritime Museum
Martin, Chris - rock musician
Mayors of Exeter - a history and full list
Memorials and Monuments war memorials and other commemorative monuments
Memories - of Exeter past
Mods and Rockers memories of a mod
Mol's Coffee House
Monty Python Filming in Exeter
Morrall, Clare - Booker Prize shortlisted author
Morrison shelters
Motoring - 1897 to 1920
Mount Radford School
Murals - street and mosaics
Museum - RAMM

N

Nelson given Freedom of the City 1801
Newspapers - a brief history with facsimiles of many early papers.
Newtown

O

The Onedin Line - a photo essay of the March 1976 filming

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