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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 1848 one of the earliest in Exeter
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
Black Death reaches Exeter
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
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
Cathedral
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

D

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
Haven Banks
Heavitree Cricket Club
Heavitree Hospital
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

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

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

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
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

A site map of Exeter Memories

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