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Memories of Exeter

Pre 20th Century memories

Celia Fiennes - Exeter from her travel journal 1698
Daniel Defoe - writes of Exeter which he visits in 1727
Various - Exonians remember the water carriers of the 1840's New
Mrs F E Gilpin - living in St Nicholas Priory and Bartholomew Street 1890's

1900 to 1939 memories

Sylvia Hart - Grandmother's business 1900's
Mrs M J Whitehead - born in Stepcote Hill 1900s
Olive Nibbs - Standfield & White - the garage 1912
Mr H Aggett - St Sidwells before the First War
Mrs F M Coles - the Newcombes of Preston Street - pre 1914
Henry Holladay - Exeter in the 1910s and 1920s
Robert Adams - Turf Locks 1920s
Cyril Brown - Shilhay and the West Quarter 1920s
Cyril Brown - Shilhay and Exe Island industry 1920s
Margaret Ball - St Thomas and Exeter in the 1920s
Margaret Ball - cinema in Exeter 1920s to 1940s
Mrs V M Dean - Bartholomew Street and Mary Arches School 1920s
Mrs V M Dean - Fore Street shops and canvassing for elections 1920s
Mr Fred Lendon - people and business in Waterbeer Street 1920s
Mr Fred Lendon - people and business in North Street 1920s
John Moore - Dad's dip in the canal 1923
Olive Nibbs - growing up in Exeter 1920s
Mrs K R Pollard - growing up in Mary Arches Street 1920s
James Bell - Exeter in the 1930s
Mrs V M Dean - swimming at Head Weir and the Lido 1920s and 30s
Mrs V M Dean - West Quarter and the coffin in the crypt 1930s
Henry Holladay - Garton and King move from Waterbeer Street 1939
Henry Holladay - life around Waterbeer Street 1930s
Olive Nibbs - poverty in the Westquarter 1930s
Olive Nibbs - motoring in the 1920s & 1930s
Olive Nibbs - Bishop Blackall School memories 1930s
Minnie Rand - rescue work and wayward girls' 1930s

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Wartime memories

Mrs M Balkwill - incendiaries and the fire watch in Newtown
Margaret Ball - the night of the blitz
Margaret Ball - rationing in wartime Exeter
James Bell - a child's view of war 1
James Bell - a child's view of war 2
James Bell - a child's view of the blitz 1942
James Bell - a child's view after the blitz 1942
Mrs E Dolman - bombs and machine guns in St Sidwells
Gloria Edwards - the blitz 1942
Edmund Forte - the blitz 1942
Mrs Marion Griffith - the blitz 1942
Sylvia Hart - wartime memories of Exeter
Tony Lethbridge - bombs over Exwick
John Moon - US Navy 1943 - 1944
Olive Nibbs - the blitz from the suburbs April 1942
Olive Nibbs - a family takes cover
Mrs B Rendle - the blitz 1942
Leslie Ernest Scant - Exwick at War
Brian Slemming - wartime Christmas and German POW's
Mr Stokes - The blitz 1942
Alfred Whitehall - letter from a POW held by the Japanese
Bill and Avril Witt - an Anglo-American romance and wedding

Post 1945 memories

Mrs F J Southcott - Bartholomew Street in the 1940s
Peter Hinchcliffe - characters, places and shopping 1950s and 60s
Pam Salzman - the Coronation in St Thomas 1953
Marcia - onion Johnnies, and the Sixties 1950/60s
Gary Brady - Panorama comes to St Thomas 1960
Mike Ewing - growing up in Exwick 1960s
Mike Ewing - flooding in Exwick 1960s
Peter Hinchcliffe - memories of an Exeter police officer 1960s
Peter Hinchcliffe - memories of smelly Exeter 1960s
Peter Hinchcliffe - Exeter's Lady in Red.... 1960s New
Phil Hoare - Growing up in St Thomas 1950s and 60s New
Jane Hope - St Thomas rebuilding and flooding 1960s
Jane Hope - dancing around the handbags 1960s
Tony Lethbridge - 6000 Morrison shelters and the Falcons
Pete Martin - growing up in Whipton 1950s
Pete Martin - three years in Heavitree 1950s
John Moore - memories of the West of England Eye Hospital
Dick Passmore - witnessed the House that Moved 1961
Paul - mods, rockers and El Zamba 1964
Paul - backstage with the Stones 1964
David Cornforth - Guildhall Silver Jubilee bronze 1977
David Cornforth - Western Data Processing computer bureau 1974
Sean Creech - first job Minerva Software 1987
Elizabeth Meloni - student memories 1990s