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Diana Dors when she visited the ABC Cinema in the early 1960s with the manager Robert "Bob" Parker. For the younger amongst us, Diana Dors was a 1960s British film star noted for her blonde hair and female attributes. Can anyone identify the two gents on the right? The comedian Tony Hancock frequently performed in Exeter, both at the Theatre Royal and the Savoy/ABC. Here he poses for a photo with the manager of the ABC, Robert 'Bob' Parker, and a young woman. Circa 1962. Photo © the late Frank Mallett.

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Maudes Garage was next to the Theatre Royal. The business was owned by a Mr Pettit who took advantage of the theatrel next door for publicity stunts—elephants from shows were marched into the showroom from Stable Yard between the theatre and the garage, and the local newspapers called. Photo © Paul Martin.After the northern and southern Exe Bridges were completed in 1972, the old 1905 Exe Bridge was demolished. Sir John Woolf Barry, who designed Tower Bridg, also designed Exe Bridge. Apart from not having a lifting mechanism, it is very similar to Tower Bridge in design. Photo © Michael T J Wride.

EXETER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO this March
This Month in Exeter - 1915 also see 1913 and 1914
Exeter Police to Employ an Airdale
Western Times - Saturday 06 March 1915
The Watch Committee reported to the Exeter City Council that the Chief Constable has presented an airedale terrier for the use of the Force as an experiment in the employment of dogs as an aid to police.
Unemployed girls
Western Times - Monday 08 March 1915
The appeal I made on Friday for the loan of five sewing machines for use in the Exeter workrooms for unemployed girls and young women has so far resulted in one machine being offered by a Heavitree lady. Thus four more are wanted and no doubt will be forthcoming in the next day or so.
Drum for museum
Western Times - Monday 08 March 1915
With regard to the Russian drum which was brought home from the field of Alma after the Crimean war by Quartermaster Bourke, an Exonian, and has now been presented to the Depot by Mr. Sidney Cole, the suggestion is made that citizens should assist in permitting it to handed over to the Royal Albert Museum as an interesting relic. Subscriptions are therefore invited for the purpose. When a certain sum has been raised, the drum will be presented to the Museum, and the money, as Mr. Cole wished handed over to the Mayoress's funds. Already several letters have been received inquiring about the drum, which at present is on view in the window of the Depot.
Birch for Boy Thieves at Exeter
Western Times - Tuesday 09 March 1915
Further cases of theft against Exeter boys were heard before Messrs. P. Kelland and H. Ball at the City Children's Court yesterday morning. Two boys, aged twelve and nine respectively, pleaded guilty to stealing one shilling and a penny from the till of a shop in Oxford-street, St. Thomas. They were caught red-handed, one boy being seen with coppers in his hand, while the other said he had been told by the first boy to steal. They admitted trying get money from four other shops during the morning, but had failed. Both boys were before the Court a short time ago, concerned in the theft of a collecting box, and it was now stated that the elder boy, after being arrested and released, declined to go home. He lived with his grandfather and grandmother, and was out of control. This boy was sent to a reformatory for five years and was apparently quite unconcerned when the Justices announced their decision. The other boy was ordered six |strokes with the birch.
Absent without leave
Western Times - Tuesday 23 March 1915
George Wilks, Bert Cook, and Leonard Sutton, absentees from the 1st Battalion Worcester Regiment, stationed at Plymouth who were found in a train at St David’s Station that morning, were handed over to an escort.